Graham SleeREFLEX ERA GOLD Phono Pre AmpusedGraham Slee REFLEX ERA GOLD Phono Pre Amp w/ PSU-1 Power Supply UpgradeThis listing is for the Graham Slee RELFEX ERA GOLD phono preamp phono stage and the Graham Slee upgraded PSU-1 Power Supply. The retail price for the preamp is $1390, the retail price for the pow...950.00

Graham Slee REFLEX ERA GOLD Phono Pre Amp w/ PSU-1 Power Supply Upgrade

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Ships fromNew Orleans, LA, 70119
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Package dimensions10.0" × 10.0" × 10.0" (3.0 lbs.)
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This listing is for the Graham Slee RELFEX ERA GOLD phono preamp phono stage and the Graham Slee upgraded PSU-1 Power Supply.  The retail price for the preamp is $1390, the retail price for the power supply is $300, for a total value of $1690. I am the original owner, and bought it from an authorized dealer a few years ago. It works perfectly and performs as well as all the reviews say it does. Search the internet for the reviews. They aren’t hard to find because this is a fantastic phono pre. I have ued this amazing preamp for about 1.5 years, and it has about 150 hours on it, so I basically did the breaking in for you.


 From The Absolute Sound: 
"I immediately felt that the Reflex (at $1390, a couple hundred dollars more) was really speaking my language. Images seemed to settle in and warm slightly on a wider and deeper soundstage. During Holly Cole’s “Briar and the Rose” there was a rush of top-end air and speed and tone color. The acoustic bass solo was posh perfection in its stability and resonance.   The Reflex was the more dimensional performer, especially in front-to-back depth. It was also fleshier in portraying accurate instrumental textures—such as the weird delicacy of the dobro solo on the “Saturday Night” track—and conveying the spatial characteristics of recordings.  During the Beatles’ “Come Together” [Mobile Fidelity], the Reflex nosed out the Gold V with a wider dynamic envelope and more bottom-end crunch. If a recording could be compared to a fabric, the Reflex reproduced a weave that grew ever tighter, the thread finer, until it virtually disappeared into a continuous whole"

The Reflex Era Gold is designed for high-output moving-coil and standard moving-magnet output levels. Use with low-output moving-coil designs will require the Elevator EXP.

M. Fremer, of Stereophile, wrote that the combination of the Elevator EXP and Reflex Era Gold was the best $2300 phono pre he had ever heard. 

Quite frankly, I hear no flaws. It is resolute, quiet, and a very musical piece of gear.

This is hand made in the UK and will ship with the original boxes and instructions. Buyer pays shipping and 3% for Paypal. I gladly accept checks as well as bank transfers. $20 for safely packaged, insured, shipping in the USA. Contact me for a worldwide quote.

My only reason for selling is that I’ve decided to switch to an MC cartridge and got a good price on a $5500 phono preamp.  The Reflex Era Gold generally looks like new, along with its power supply.

Specs (from the internet): 
Phono Connectors Heavy Gold Plated 
Gain 41.5 db (118) 
Maximum Input 45mV rms 
Nominal Output 472 mV rms 
Maximum Output 5.3 V rms 
Input Resistance 47 kOhms 
Input Capacitance 220 pF 
Output will drive 10k Ohms 
Noise -68dB CCIR q-pk 20Hz-20kHz 
Distortion 0.02% 
RIAA Accuracy 0.5 dB 
Frequency Response 5Hz - 150kHz 
Channel Balance 0.2 dB 
Channel Separation 64 dB 
Power Supply: 
The power supply circuits do not employ switch-mode or DC-DC conversion. The RF produced by such devices gets into the signal path and modulates the signal, producing a set of pseudo frequencies that sing along with the music. This may make a stage sound rich, luscious and zingy, but it’s not music. 

The Reflex Era Gold has a unique construction aluminium extrusion base and top; 3.2mm thick front and rear panels; Satin silver anodised aluminium finish 
Size (approx) 170 x 117 x 50 (mm)

Graham Slee PSU1 Power Supply
Improves the Power and Sound of Your Graham Slee Preamp

The Graham Slee PSU1 is a beefy power supply, offering rock-solid power delivery.  Adding the PSU1 will improve bass performance, open up the soundstage, expand the midrange and extend top end performance. Designed to be a remote power supply placed well away from sensitive equipment like turntables and cartridges which are susceptible to pick up of stray magnetic fields, the PSU1 is best sited off of your hi-fi rack for maximum isolation.

The PSU1 has a stabilized output voltage of +24VDC as well as a nominal 30V DC, at a down-rated 200mA. Two mains voltages are available: 115VAC and 230VAC. They have sufficient latitude to accommodate voltages from 90 - 130VAC and 180 - 260VAC respectively, when powering Graham Slee products. It uses a specially manufactured mains transformer made using top quality transformer steel, consuming minimal excitation (core magnetisation) current while optimizing transformer regulation. Transformer buzz is kept to an absolute minimum.

Shielding is required for signal cables where there is some source impedance (driving impedance). The DC output of the PSU1does not supply a signal (although Kelvin currents return to it which will be covered elsewhere) - it produces DC (direct current). It is a virtual a short circuit to signal currents including radio frequencies - it has virtually zero source impedance - similar to the output of a power amplifier, it therefore does not need to be shielded.

As the input/output terminals of the voltage regulator are biased apart by the input/output voltage differential, and that voltage is fixed, then the PSU1 reservoir capacitors come into play. These are a quantity of four 1000 microfarad low impedance electrolytic capacitors of the variety used in switching regulators, so they exhibit low impedance at high frequency, and they are arranged in parallel which decreases their impedance four-fold. They will start to swamp the output impedance below 100kHz and will be extremely low impedance all the way down to 40Hz (below hum and ripple frequencies) where the impedance will again rise to about 1 Ohm.

Therefore the PSU1 output impedance is never higher than 2 Ohms and mostly below 0.01 Ohm for its intended use. As such it is a virtual short circuit with respect to the current being drawn from it and signals cannot propagate from a short circuit.

The PSU1 DC output cable features 13 filaments of 0.2mm diameter, rated at 2.5 amps, is used to carry a current of 0.132 amps when delivering power to a Solo Ultra-Linear headphone amplifier driving both channels at full output into low impedance 32 Ohm headphones (to do 104 decibels). That’s 19x "overkill".

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