Juicy Music Pre amps
george daniel
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Anyone here have any firsthand experience,, looking specifically at a Merlin
JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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Mark Deneen was/is an extremely talented designer; full disclosure -- I have no ears on experience (sorry!), but I have every reason to believe that his "Juicy Music" branded phono preamps, at least, were excellent. I admire him greatly and think he's one of those hifi hardware guys who "gets it" (as an old boss of mine used to say).
I did have an interesting Mark Deneen-designed preamp for a while, but it was quite a different kettle of fish than the fairly minimalist Juicy Music hardware. -
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Mark designs some incredible gear. I have two friends with his Blueberry preamps. They do sound nice. I ran a Tercel phono pre for years that I really liked. I only took it out after Mark worked with me, so I could scratch build one of his designs.
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Mark designed a really interesting statement preamp for ADC (Peter Pritchard) at some point. I stumbled across one on eBAY for a bargain price and bought it. It had some issues in one channel and I ultimately donated it back to Mark for his own collection (he didn't have one). It was a pretty amazing piece of hardware.
ADC Mark Deneen B100 preamp by Mark Hardy, on Flickr -
the ADC 100 preamp design was a "mistake compared to the design from the Paragon Model 10 or 12 a
In these years I was the distributer form then Paragon preamps in Germany -
☝️Fascinating
