For the sake of my own curiosity, can someone give me a rundown of the specifications of the various CA preamps? The CA website is rather, erm... minimalist (the entry for the 9200 reads simply "preamp", lol), and it gets hard to keep all the differences in my mind.
For example, I own a 9100, and while the gain range is labelled as 0 - 20 dB, from what I understand 0 gain is actually at around 11 o clock on the knob, and everything before that is attentuation. So, does the gain actually go all the way up to 20 dB? Or, does it stop at less, because what the label says is 0 is actually some amount of attentuation?
For the preamps with stepped gain (9200?), what is the value of a stepped gain plus an output volume knob? Adding, for eg, 15 db of gain and then attentuating the output by 5 db to avoid clipping? Why? Why not just add 10 dB of gain?
The UGLY preamps... do I remember than one of them has to be adjusted with only a screwdriver? This is the UGLY I? UGLY II has a knob?
So, yeah... what is the gain range (actual gain range and 'labelled' gain range), stepped/variable, size, controls, HPF fuctions, etc, of each of the CA preamps? General specs. I don't want to bother Chris by PMing him directly, I'm sure other people can answer these simple questions, they just don't seem to all be written down anywhere.
Also, how many "versions" of these are there? I understand that there are have been changes to each preamp over the course of their existence? A 9100 that I might buy today will not be the same as the 9100 I bought back in 2007? These version changes seem rarely talked about, but I don't think I imagined them.
Thanks...