Product Review - Golden Age Project Pre 73 DLX & EQ73
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This Swedish company have a reputation for delivering professional sound quality at a budget price. Do the latest additions to their outboard range measure up?
Golden Age distribute high-quality pro audio and acoustics products in their native Sweden. Back in 2009 they started to make their own line of affordable audio gear under the name Golden Age Project (GAP). Almost inevitably, the manufacturing process is outsourced to a factory in the Far East, but these are not simple OEM devices. Rather, GAP design their own products, usually based on classic vintage circuitry, and have them manufactured to their specifications.
Several GAP products have appeared in SOS, including a range of affordable ribbon mics, which impressed us greatly, and the Neve-inspired Pre 73 transformer-balanced preamp (www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar09/articles/goldenagepre73.htm) and Comp 54 transformer-balanced compressor (www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr11/articles/ga-comp-54.htm), based on the Neve 2254, both of which met with praise.
The original Pre 73 has since been updated to include an insert point, intended to allow you to insert the new EQ73 equaliser, which is, again, based on the Neve original, the 1073. Add the Comp54 to the chain, then, and you can have an entire Neve-inspired channel strip for a very attractive price. Another version of the preamp, also sporting the insert point, is now available and it’s this, the Pre 73 DLX, that is reviewed here, alongside the new EQ73
The DLX Preamp
A peep inside one of the review Pre 73 DLX preamps reveals a couple of the revered — and optional — Carnhill transformers.
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Pre 73 Mk II (with standard transformer; Carnhill cannot be fitted) £239; Pre 73 DLX: with standard transformers £349; with Carnhill mic input and output transformers £499; with mic and line input and output transformers £549; with mic and line input and output transformers and high-pass inductor £599; EQ73 £199; PSAC4 four-way power supply £99. Prices include VAT.Pre 73 Mk II (with standard transformer: the Carnhill can’t be fitted) $349.99; Pre 73 DLX with standard transformer $449.99; Carnhill transformer mod $225 (from Zen Pro Audio); EQ73 $299.99; PSASC4 four-way power supply $119.99.Rad Distribution +1 914 523 5247.
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