SAE preamps (ad, May 1979)

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SAE gives you more pre-amp:

If you're looking at pre-amps, you're looking at three things: performance, flexibility and construction.

You're trying to get the most of all three. It's as simple as that.

Why look at SAE? It's as simple as this:

Two-stage phono circuit. (All models.) By dividing amplification into two stages, we are able to utilize passive high-frequency equalization.

This dramatically reduces high-frequency feedback, by 20dB in fact, as well as the resulting transient intermodulation distortion (TIM). The audible effect is a greater definition of sound, increased clarity.

Tape facilities. (All models.) Take the unique Tape EQ: Now you can modify the recorded sound to suit your personal tastes by switching parametric or tone control circuits between selected input (phono, tape, aux.) and recorder circuits.

Parametric equalizers. Providing virtually complete control over bandwidth, center frequency and cut or boost, our parametrics provide greater flexibility and a wider variety of effects than any conventional system has ever offered. (2100 and 2900 models.)

"Superchip”. We took the integrated circuit out of instrumentation and into audio. Even at full output, our state-of-the-art superchip provides super-low distortion (<0.005%), super-high slew rate (>V/u-sec) and excellent transient response. (2100 and 2100L models.)

We make our pre-amps exactly the same way we make our amps, tuners, equalizers, everything.

By hand. With the finest materials money can buy and the greatest care money can't buy.

But the most important feature in every SAE pre-amp is sound. It's the only reason we do every thing we do. It has greater clarity, finer accuracy, and a more vivid sense of dimensionality.

It had better. It has one other very important feature to live up to:

Its name: SAE.