2-610 Dual Channel Tube Preamplifier

classic warm tube sound gallore

I love the 2-610! Having a bigger power transformer, its audio performance is far superiour from the smaller packaged 610 Solos and derivates. Only the mighty M-610 is even better with its big torodial transformer! I always wanted to try a torodial as PSU for the 2-610, too, since I once read that the first prototypes had that kind of PSU. But anyhow - a 610 is a true classic. It's never harsh, it's big and warm, but never overly hughe, wooley and slow. It is just sweet. Not my first choice on drums perhaps, but on guitars and backing vocals it is just so right! Have a listen to its performance in the wonderful preamp comparisson by Lynn Fuston on his DVD "Preamps in Paradise" - those examples say it all! One of the roundes and nicest preamps out there. I own vintage 1073s, vintage RCA OP6, vintage Tridents and MCI. The UA 2-610 is the heating amongst those all. It is simply the king of warm sound (where the 1073 is the king of proximity and saturation, OP6 is the king of high gain for ribbons, Trindent is the clean overhead king, and MCI is king of male vocal thickness...).

Vintage magic

Warm tone, useful/subtle EQ, excellent build quality, great value. My go-to preamp for nearly everything.