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Impress Your Friends and Neighbors with a Conrad Johnson Gold Faceplate.

Yes, become the talk of the neighborhood by owning my CJ with a gold faceplate.

The modern day equivalent of performing magic tricks, your friends will 'oohh' and 'aahhh' when they see this beaming forth from your equipment rack.

Furthermore, it does not have any markings, knobs or dials, so when they ask "what is it", you can answer "it's a transmoliator for hyper-extending the frequistics" (or whatever you want to tell them).

YOU should buy this just because it looks so cool, that's what I did.

For those needing justification, it's a Conrad Johnson Model HV-1 Nuvistor Pre-Preamplifier (don't miss the extra 'pre' in there, it means something).

This unit contains potentially lethal voltages, so you shouldn't operate it with the cover off, and has a really nice looking gold faceplate.

What does it do?...it's a head amp (step-up transformer) for a low output cartridge. You take the signal from your cartridge into the transmoliator then out from the transmoliator into your phono preamp. It does NOT replace the need for a phono stage. 

Of course, this unit has the legendary Nuvistor tube, which grabs the signal and massages it till it becomes all soft and mushy. (not really, it sounds superb!).

Well the front looks fine but the rest of the case is a bit tatty. Some knobend at the hifi store placed one of those barcode stickers on the back, and I can't get it off. The first picture shows the sticker in place, the second picture is after I've tried to remove it, and the last picture is my cat. Look, who cares about the back of the unit, this thing works great and has a gold faceplate.

So what are you waiting for, this is just what you've always wanted, now bid for it.

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