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| Review: Audio Valve Eklipse Tube preamp I just noticed that the website, The Stereo Times, recently came out with their "Most Wanted Components Awards" for 2008. No surprize that their reviewer Mike Wright put the Eklipse on this list for 2008, he loved it in his original review.Mr.Wrig... | |
| Review: Audio Valve Eklipse Tube preamp I have oftened used the very subjective terms "musicality" and "organic" in my GON reviews of pieces of equipment that offered something very special that allowed me to just relax and enjoy the music in a more natural way. I really had this experi... | |
| Review: Audio Valve Eklipse Tube preamp Hi Plelko, thanks for sharing regarding your tube rolling experience in the Eklipse. I'm a little surprized about using 12AX7s vs. 12AU7s, I did not know that they could be used in replace of each other in the Eklipse, or for that matter in any pi... | |
| Review: Audio Valve Eklipse Tube preamp Plelko, thanks for the kind words regarding my review of the Eklipse. Both Mike Kay and Mike Wright used your NOS RCA clear dome 12AU7 tubes to replace the stock tubes. I found that the the NOS Amperex long plates D-getter tubes were superior acro... | |
| Review: Audio Valve Eklipse Tube preamp Chris, I have not noticed the "flaring up" of the 12AU7 tubes during turn on, however I rarely turn my preamp off anyways.I have never had a CAT preamp in my system, but on a few occasions have heard different generations of the CAT in other syste... | |
| Review: Audio Valve Eklipse Tube preamp Just wanted to share that as the Eklipse gets more hours on it, to my surprize and pleasure, it has opened up in the area of macrodynamics across the entire sonic spectrum and especially so in the bottom end frequencies.I use from the Telarc CD, R... | |
| Want to buy a high-end and excellent DAC, help plz Lobster King, if your interested only in a solid state DAC I would recommend you look at my review of the Accustic Arts DAC MK3, which was my reference untill the Tube Hybrid. You could purchase one at a great price on the market right now.I have ... | |
| Want to buy a high-end and excellent DAC, help plz Lobster King, go to my review of the Accustic Arts Reference Tube Hybrid DAC for details regarding its performance and why after listing to DACS that cost over $20000.00 more I still think AA DAC competes with anything on the Market today. | |
| Review: Audio Valve Eklipse Tube preamp Just had over one of my dearest audiophile friends to hear how the system sounded with the Eklipse replacing my old linestage. After listening his first excited remark was, " this preamp has the greatest sense of image palpabilty I have ever heard... | |
| Super Dac under $20K? Sorry Guys for that extra zero! | |
| Super Dac under $20K? Fplanner2000, take a look at my review here on the GON on the Accustic Arts Tube Hybrid Reference DAC that ranks among one of the finest musical sounding redbook DACS on the market, built with beautiful German craftsmenship, at half the cost of DA... | |
| Review: Pass Labs XA100.5 Amplifier Peterayer, thanks for very well written, informative, and entertaining review. I wrote a GON review both on the 350.5 and my present XA-100's, I too am also a great fan of Nelson Pass's amps. The only generation that I did not like was the first g... | |
| Lack in harmonic richness Chris, all I want to share is that you and I have the same digital front end and my system has beautiful/natural timbres and harmonics so I know its not your front end. My hunch either your preamp or amps and I have never heard either pieces, so i... | |
| best digital cable,sonic frontier STF-1 transport; Juancgenao, read my Gon review of the Stealth Sextet cable regarding why this one of the best digital cables available on the market today. I auditioned over 8 highly regarded cables to come to this conclusion. If, your interested in auditioning/p... | |
| Review: Accustic Arts Reference Tube Hybrid DAC II DA converter Mtkhl567, thanks for your comments. When I contacted the new importer for Accustic Arts for the US, who seems to be a good guy and a fine gentleman, regarding the differences between the Dac II and the SE, they revolved around NOS Russian tubes vs... |