For sale Read Purity

cool... any pix of the back?

I'll have rear-view pics up tonight, anyone who needs them now, email me at uglycicles {{at}} gmail {{dot}} com

With no Read website these days, it's hard to know what the controls, ins, and outs are on this thing. Can you list the features?

Thanks-

---I have been looking for one of these for a very long time.

Richard Collins

will have features and more pics up tonight....

Rear features:
1/4" send and return effects inputs

DI with level knob (driven by 12AU7 - looks like a green lettering Sylvania - well worn off but discernable)

Ground Lift toggle switch

Front features, left to right are:

High and Low Z inputs

Gain

Master

Mute (toggle switch)

Emphasis

Bass (flat is 9 o'clock)

Low Mid (flat is 3 o'clock)

High Mid (flat is 3 o'clock)

Treble (flat is 12 o'clock)

EQ Off toggle switch with LED (gain, master and emphasis are only factors)

Deep switch with LED

Bright switch with LED

Hope this helps.

The READ Custom Bass Purity all tube preamp is warm, articulate, detailed, and lively; it has an almost three dimensional quality to it. Response is tight and quick; you get tube warmth without any mushiness like some of the vintage amps will give you. Here's a list of features:

* One rack space high
* All point-to-point hand wiring
* All tube circuitry; not a single solid state component to be found in the signal path
* Nothing but the best components; Sprague Atom electrolytic capacitors, Sprague Orange Drop polypropylene coupling/tone control caps, Auricap audiophile coupling caps, Vishay metal film resistors
* Jensen transformer balanced DI XLR out
* Jensen transformer balanced/unbalanced 1/4" line out
* 4 band tube driven eq; bass, lo mid, high mid, treble
* Mid Emphasis control alters the overall character of the EQ for greater flexibility
* Deep switch with indicator LED
* Bright switch with indicator LED
* Mute switch with indicator LED
* Gain control plus master volume
* EQ bypass switch with indicator LED
* Dedicated DI level control
* Effects loop
* Tuner out
* 12AX7 and 12AU7 tubes
* Extremely low noise

...so get back to me...and thanks!

Richard Collins a/k/a "notrt"

Bump.

Someone should swoop on this fast! I have pre-production model #004, and it's killer.

Wow, these don't come up very often! Bump for a killer tube preamp!

Thanks for the bumps fellas.

Still available.

Listening to the samples at Basstasters, I think this would be, IMO, the best preamp tone I have ever heard. Period

I had one that I not only used for personal use, but for the NAMM show & they was killer! The only reason I don't have it anymore is that one of my very close friends begged me for it.

If you need an excellent preamp, this is it & at a great price!

Whappo Grande said:

I had one that I not only used for personal use, but for the NAMM show & they was killer! The only reason I don't have it anymore is that one of my very close friends begged me for it.

If you need an excellent preamp, this is it & at a great price!

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I resemble that remark and am still loving the Read!

Wally

A wonderful preamp, up there with the Aguilar DB680 in the tone department.

Deal pending - awaiting payment

ugly,

now that's an avatar, son...