Hello! I purchased an Aretha a few months ago from Holgar at Tube Nirvana and I am VERY pleased with it. I believe the Aretha's line stage is based on a Roy Mottram circuit design for his SP9 - the octal version. My only beef was that the tubes supplied were a bit noisy for my setup - a ST-70 clone driving a pair of extremely sensitive Klipsch Lascalas. A quad of NOS Sylvania 6SL7's fixed that. Also, the line fuse blew for no apparent reason after only a few hours but no troubles since. Each of these units are hand made and the quality of workmanship is outstanding! At this price point I've seen nothing that compares.
Tube Nirvana Aretha
Has anyone had any experience with Tube Nirvana? I am interested in their Aretha Tube Pre-amp as it has tone controls (not looking for a discussion on pros/cons of tone controls as it's my choice) and a remote which are two things I am looking for. Any information, reviews would be helpful.
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