• Spartan 5 pre-amp is excellent, great value and performance. Initially I was using the built in pre-amp on my Rotel A10 integrated amplifier which sounded decent specifically designed for analog playback but doesn’t have a mono switch. I used the rca y cable split trick for a while for mono LPs but was getting feedback if turned up past 1/3 volume and then saw your review of the spartan…Read More