Jo Red Preamps

The home of the Hi-Fi preamps for sound systems
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Welcome to the home of the Hi-Fi preamps for sound systems
 
 
 
 
                               Jo Red Preamps                               
4 way standard
4 way with needle vumeter


3 way with vumeter ina military style

4 way with red front plate
4 way cut down 4U height only
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Tube moded JTS by Jo Red
 
 
 
Fromtop left to bottom right : JTS 3way,JoRed 4 way, Lincoln Red 4 way, Barracuda 3 way
 

Jo Red Preamps ina different front plate colors
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
If you need hi quality Swiss hand made preamps/mixers don't look no further
you reached the right place
 
 
 
Jo Red Preamps are the most technologicaly advanced preamps available today
 
 
 
 
 
 
This site will be dedicated to the wonderfull world of sound systems preamps
 
You will find here :
          • Jo Red preamps
          • Second hand preamps
          • Modification services for your preamp
          • Repair services for your preamps and musical gear
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
About Jo Red :
 
The hole story began 2 years ago as I decided to improve the sound of the preamps.
I was always decieved by the sound systems because of their poor sound quality.
Not because some of those sounds play too loud but mainly because the sound is distorted.
I had no pleasure to listen to it especialy when some of my favorite tunes where played
and had very hard time  to recognise the tune. No pleasure at all, just bass shaking.
 
After some discussion with my brethreen Jah Thomas from Lion Youth Sound System
we decided to modify his Jah Tubby's 3 way preamp to make a tube/valves preamp.
I did a full backward engineering to understand the principles of this preamp.
I found out that many points could be upgraded to get better results.
You can have a look at here (part 1) and here (part 2) for a full review of this preamp and Mostec preamp and mods.
 
Due to succes of this mod and by popular demand I did mod some others JTS preamp.
I developed a phase linear crossover module, a discrete output opamp (API based),
added filtering for mic and fx returns ( to avoid tweeter damage ).
 
  
By the same time I got many request from sound systems owners to repair
and restore their preamp from the most well know to most unkown preamp.
To name a few : Barracuda, Links, JTS, Mostec, Lincoln.
 
 
Again by popular demand I did start to build my own line of preamps with no compromise to sound quality.
 
Only the best of the best.
 
The philosophy behind it is to reproduce a record with no distortion and coloration.
Back in the days when the jamaicans recorded musik with their analogue equipment the sound wasn't at the top level.
But this give its unique character to reggae musik of the 70's. And I love it.
But what happens if you reproduce this non-perfect musik with far from perfect preamps, amps and speaker?
You mash up the sound!!! You loose those wonderfull details wich makes the musik so rich.
 
I wanted to have the same quality as those expensive Hi-Fi gear.
 
Please have a look at the PRODUCTS page for a full review of the Jo Red Preamp


 


 


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



 
The Jo Red Preamp
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The first tube modded JTS
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Some preamps I had to repair and mod
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Barracuda preamp serviced by myself