Re: Cartridge preamp
If you fancy playing with 2N3819s, I've got a few hundred (courtesy of a purchase of some secondhand storage drawers complete with interesting contents). Let me know and I'll pop a few in the post.
Similarly for some sort of general purpose opamp.
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