I worked at Primus Audio (Kansas City, home to Encore) in the late 80's early 90's when Derek was working on the Encore preamp. That was a wonderful sounding preamp with an excellent phono stage. I'm not sure what happened to the company, but Encore pieces still show up on Audiogon from time to time. Ah, fond memories...

Tim

Well, that's interesting.

I never owned Encore, yet they went out of business?

That makes no sense. Usually, hi fi companies wait until I buy their gear before they do that!

Seriously, though, I'll look around and see if I can get the down low on any story. That's too bad.