The Millennia LPE-2 Analog Legacy Phonographic / Archiving Preamplifier. I would give anything to find a place that could demo this thing. Anybody ever see one or have the luxury of actually using one?

http://www.mil-media.com/lpe-2.html

Just read about this thing. It looks amazing. Check out pages 13 thru 16 of the manual.

It's $8500.00, and I want one! :tears:

The National Library of Canada called us with a requirement for an uncompromising phonographic front-end. The device had to work flawlessly with every known equalization curve ever produced, including acoustics, 16’s, 33’s, 45’s, 78’s, Edison cylinders, and much more. Millennia created the LPE-2 in response to this need, and has delivered a number of units to the National Library. The LPE-2 later became a standard Millennia product, with scores of units installed into the world’s top archiving and mastering laboratories.

The Millennia LPE-2 Analog Legacy Phonographic / Archiving Preamplifier. I would give anything to find a place that could demo this thing. Anybody ever see one or have the luxury of actually using one?

http://www.mil-media.com/lpe-2.html

Just read about this thing. It looks amazing. Check out pages 13 thru 16 of the manual.

It's $8500.00, and I want one! :tears:

The National Library of Canada called us with a requirement for an uncompromising phonographic front-end. The device had to work flawlessly with every known equalization curve ever produced, including acoustics, 16’s, 33’s, 45’s, 78’s, Edison cylinders, and much more. Millennia created the LPE-2 in response to this need, and has delivered a number of units to the National Library. The LPE-2 later became a standard Millennia product, with scores of units installed into the world’s top archiving and mastering laboratories.


Lucky National Library of Canada.:tears:

I'm a little jealous and much too poor... but if I win a big enough lottery and decide to retire just to tinker with audio gear in a converted warehouse somewhere, then that is definitely on my shopping list. What an extremely useful 'toy' for playing vinyl! Thanks for sharing it.

I do have a very well-built "Millennium" surround-sound decoder. Wonder if it comes from the same company? I'll have to check that out.

for that kind of outlay, I'd opt for a Steelhead instead. Don't play too many Edison cylinders, I wouldn't want to pay for the option.