Jay Rai
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2025
Ordered this preamplifier reluctantly and tested it with Fluance turntable, the audio output was amazing. Bass, Mid and Treble controls are quite responsive. Power LED is little too bright. Build quality is very good except for the power cable. Loudness control is useless.Have connected CD, Vinyl, Cassette deck and phone to it.Loving it.
Louis
Reviewed in Canada on February 16, 2025
Does the trick for my multi-zone system in my house. Rack mount is awesome, sounds clean.
Banque Nationale
Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2025
Best preamplifier ever i love mine good sound
William Allen Foster
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2024
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Darrellb
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2024
I really just picked this up because my receiver has no preouts, so I bring my signal straight from my pc to this preamp via the 3.5mm aux to rca adapter cable....but as it turns out, I find the bass, mid, treble, and loudness adjustment dials on this unit to be so effective and handy that I'm really not making tuning adjustment anywhere else.....the best part, though, is that I can set all of my volume/gain levels on my amps (running 3 right now) and on the pc where the signal comes from when i turn everything on, and from then on I only use the single volume dial on this preamp to adjust the volume up or down for everything....sounds like a small thing to some, but I listen to a lot of music and it gets to be a big pain if you don't have an easy way to make volume/gain adjustments on 3 frequency ranges with 2 channels per range...everything I need for the most part is right there on this preamp...I love it and it was more than affordable compared to pretty much anything else you'll ever buy for your audio system....any time you can spend $100 or less and it makes such a substantial change to how you can operate your many electronic wares, it is a huge win as far as I'm concerned...this unit had great reviews...and that is why i read the reviews religiously on Amazon...get one of these units....totally worth it!
J-François Tremblay
Reviewed in Canada on March 30, 2024
Facile à utiliser et de bonne qualité
Gabriel Roberto Márqyez Agraz
Reviewed in Mexico on January 25, 2024
Tiene un excelente sonido, buena ganancia, sin ruido ni coloracion, facil de instalar y usar,
Manuel
Reviewed in Mexico on November 24, 2023
Muy buen productoSolo faltan mas especifucaciones en uso de Tape y otras funciones como Loudness
Jeff P.
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2019
ORIGINAL REVIEW Feb 2019, was 5 stars, titled “Huge improvement vs. my basic flat phono-only preamp:”Mine is new so I can't comment on longevity, but this absolutely blows away its predecessor. I have an entry-level vintage turntable that I fed to an inexpensive Behringer Microphono PP400 phono-only preamp that has no controls - no volume, bass, treble, balance, just a preamp that gooses the cart signal enough to pass along down the wire.In my case, "down the wire" was a Bluetooth transmitter paired to a Bluetooth-capable soundbar with a subwoofer. The soundbar acted as both the end of the (Bluetooth) "wire" and the power amp for the signal produced by the Behringer preamp. It sounded great to me.But I couldn't leave well enough alone and I swapped the Behringer preamp for the OSD PRE-1 today. Suddenly I had variable bass, treble *and* midrange (!!) adjustments available and the difference isn't subtle, it's outright stunning. I didn't know my soundbar could pump out lows this room-shaking or highs this delightfully crisp. The OSD looks and feels like it costs a lot more too, and is fully-featured...not just a phono preamp by any means.I was (still am) happy with the Behringer for what it is and would recommend it to anyone. It amplifies a phono signal without adding or subtracting anything and does a great job at a crazy low price. However, I love to overdo the bass and/or treble sometimes and so for me the OSD is a massive step up at an even crazier low price. Really happy with this purchase so far (ya think?). Yes, some reviews mention QC issues. If I get a year out of it before it fails, I'll probably just get another one - at this price it's almost disposable and I haven't seen anything that even begins to compete with it.UPDATE Feb 2022: sudden onset of intermittent distortion + volume anomalies - random increases, decreases and complete drop outs. Also, the volume control has developed a delayed response such that if you turn the volume knob up or down quickly, the sound level doesn’t change immediately - there’s a slight lag. The issues affect both my MM phono input and my CD input. So it’s not quite dead but it has changed from a pleasure to unlistenable junk. So I docked my rating from 5 to 4 stars because I think something like this shouldn’t fail after two years. I wouldn’t argue that I should have docked it further.So why did I just order another one? Because in this price range the Pre-1’s feature set has little to no competition. I want a phono-level preamp input + an additional input for a CD deck. I may add a tape deck at some point and the Pre-1 handles that too. I absolutely want bass and treble controls. The Pre-1 includes them and adds a midrange level control and a loudness contour. If there’s a compelling alternative I haven’t been able to find it.So I’m not happy with the longevity, but still happy enough with the bang for the buck to treat this as disposable. If I get another two years out of the new one I’ll be happy enough.