Transcendent Sound Grounded Grid Preamplifiers

Well I built one of these for a friend as a kit about 15 years ago, and never really cared or took the time to listen to it. Fast forward to now, and I recently acquired a Transcendant Sound single ended OTL and am so impressed. I run it with Klipsch...

Fantastic clear performance. Such a simple design produces a very nice musical presentation. It may not be the ultimate in refinement, but for 500 bucks you can't have a better Tube Preamp.

I just want to second all of the positives. The GG Preamp is a great starter kit and provides music, nothing else.

After acquiring a copy of Audio Reality, written and published by Mr. Bruce Rozenblit, I had to have the Grounded Grid preamplifier in my humble tube based audio setup.

This review is about a factory assembled unit only. After reading all the wonderful reviews on this product in this forum plus the factory telling me "it will blow the doors off most other preamps" I was intrigued. Not being very good at soldering plus...