BAE (Brent Averill Enterprises) has introduced the new, improved 1272 and 1272A stereo mic preamplifiers, featuring a new twist on vintage design, with the hand-built units now housed in enclosed chassis.

“The benefit of this new design is that it provides more real estate on which to place additional features,” commented BAE President, Mark Loughman. “The four buttons on the faceplate signify 48-volt phantom power, phase reverse, direct line input and selectable mic input impedance of 1200 and 300 ohms.”

“Audio engineers who have tested this new mic pre (with new gain stage by Avedis Audio) have said that they, ‘can’t tell the sonic difference between the new 1272 and a 1073 without EQ’. As we use the same Carnhill/St Ives input and output transformer, it’s true that we can get pretty close.”

The 1272A incorporates the inductor-based high pass filter (as in the 1073), providing two channels of Class A mic pre/filter in a 1U chassis.

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