John Tracy's Creations
Just when I had thought that John had maxed out his Mood Indigo, he trumps his earlier efforts. This version uses a differential series-feed design with Lundahl LL1689AM output transformers. As a mark of John's building experience, this took 40 hours in a marathon three-day weekend. Congratulations again for a great piece of work John! Thanks for sharing it with us.
August, 2009
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The Mood Indigo is a first-generation Raleigh Audio line stage based preamp. While it is still one of the finest preamps to be found, the electronics is not quite up to today's generation of the Extreme Active Output. John has taken his Mood Indigo and hypercharged it with the latest Extreme Active Output and added a RAKK dac Mark II to boot! It is truly maxed out. Congratulations on a great piece of work, John
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These are earlier pictures of John's RAKK dac with Passive Output and Tent Clock. John updated to a Mark II and then moved the Mark II into the Mood Indigo shown above.
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And here are some pictures of John's rebuilt Eico HF-89. His upgrades include a K&K Audio constant current source among other things.
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John's craftsmanship is evident in these beautiful differential parallel 6550 mono-blocks that he built.
