McCormack ALD-1 1996 Heavy brushed aluminum face plate - gold plated connectors

• UPDATE Jan 20, 2023 The unit was sold on E-bay and shipped to the purchaser in December. Unfortunately it was severely damaged in delivery by UPS. My fault for not adding ample insurance.
• The unit has been returned to me and the operating condition is unknown though all lights work and the buyer claims it was sent back "fully operational". The only physical result from shipping is that the aluminum faceplate was separated from the frame.

• At this point I will accept any reasonable offers for the unit. I am only marking it as "non-functioning" in the interest of full disclosure. So this is pick up only with no ability top test at the time of pickup. It's well worth as parts and I'm sure fixable if need be by most talented bench repair person.

• Original and only owner of this unit. Purchased in 1996 from a high-end audio retailer in Chicago. Cosmetically excellent condition on all sides. Only issue is front volume pot can sometimes be sensitive. Probably could use service cleaning. Other than that the unit is in excellent working condition at this listing. Power cable included.

About the McCormack Active Line Drive ALD-1 Preamplifier --
Solid state preamplifier. Active and passive inputs. Active (balanced and unbalanced) and passive outputs. Maximum input to active circuits 5V rms. Maximum output from active circuits 10V rms. Input impedance 500 kOhms, output impedance 100 Ohms. Total Harmonic Distortion less than 0.05%. Size 4 3/8"H x 19"W x 11 1/2"D. Weight 12 pounds.

The front panel has four control knobs, from left to right: source selector, tape monitor selector, normal/direct selector, and volume control. In the center is a set of switches for tape recording (dubbing) and signal muting. The ALD-1 is unusual in this regard, having two tape loops, where many preamplifiers only have one, or none at all. This allows the user to copy from one cassette tape deck to another, for example, from a DCC or DAT deck to analog cassette for playing the tape in your car. The switch also allows one to copy in either direction (tape deck 1 to deck 2 and deck 2 to deck 1). The tape buffer circuits can also be taken completely out of the signal path by the use of this switch. The mute switch automatically comes on for 20 seconds at power on, then turns off. For manual use, the switch turns off one channel, then the other, or both (when the phone rings, or when you want to check the sound coming from one channel). The rear panel has inputs (unbalanced) for CD, tuner, video, tape, and aux/phono (the phono module, MM or MC, is optional for this circuit at $345.00). There are two sets of tape in and tape out for use with the tape dubbing circuits. There is one set of direct in and passive out connectors where the signal is routed directly to the volume control and from there to the passive out. One set of balanced outputs, plus normal out and inverted out, complete the array of possible connections.