Qu'est ce que ca vaut?

Citation : The 1081 is a full featured input module from the old 80series Neve consoles, which people have been removing and racking for stand alone use ever since. It has an incredible EQ, a mic preamp that gives up to 80dB of gain, and a separate line input section. A similar and equally sought after input module is the 1073. Its EQ has fewer features, but the mic pre circuitry is entirely different and said to sound sweeter by some engineers. In those same consoles you will find general purpose line amp modules called 1272 and 1271. Since 1272 modules contain the same mic input transformer, same output transformer, and two out of three of the same amplifier stages as a 1073 they can be modified to function and sound just like a 1073 mic preamp section. The catch is that you can't go above 50dB of gain is you want to maintain the same quality of sound (because the 1073 has a third amp stage for that exta 30dB). Also, there are many fine details in the conversion process, at least one of which all the companies selling "1272 mic preamps" manage to mess up or leave out. The 1271 is indentical to a 1272, except lacking one of the amplifier stages and thus provides about 30dB less gain. Very easy to fill in the missing components, however. In addition, it should be known that the only thing a 1081 has in common with the 1073 and 1271, 1272 is the mic input transformer. The 1081 and 1073 as preamps do not sound the same in practice.