BAE Launch New 1272 and 1272A
Traditional Audio Manufacturer Releases Another Twist on Vintage Design
From top: BAE's New 1272A and 1272 Mic Pres
July 17, 2009 – Audio Agent client, BAE (Brent Averill Enterprises) proudly introduce the new, improved 1272 and 1272A Stereo Mic Preamplifiers. Having previously manufactured a 1272 module attached to a 19″ faceplate and wire harness, the Southern California manufacturer is now to building the hand-wired preamps 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, 48v phantom power, phase reverse, direct line input and selectable mic input impedance of 1200 and 300 ohms.”
According to Loughman, “the few audio engineers who have tested this new mic pre (with new gain stage by Avedis Audio) so far have said 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 transformers, it’s true that we can get pretty close.”
The 1272A goes one step further - it has all the qualities of the 1272 but with one significant difference; BAE incorporated 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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