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| Pre-Amp Help Sorry Macdadtexas, my mix-up, I meant the information on the Eklipse to be for Ajackson1 not you. | |
| Pre-Amp Help Macdadtexas, take a look at my review here on the GON on the Audio Valve Eklipse preamp for the details regarding this terrific linestage. It's in your budget range and I have heard the Ayre-K1XE and believe it is quite out performed by the Eklips... | |
| Review: Audio Valve Eklipse Tube preamp In the December issue of Stereophile, Robert J. Reina picked the Eklipse as one of the Editors' Choice 2008 products of the year.Mr. Reina stated, "A neutral, detailed, liquid, and dynamic performer with solid-state-like, kick-slam bass whose perf... | |
| Edge NL12.1: what smallish floorstanders/monitors? Rgs92, take a look at S&P Tech's Mini two way speaker. Bob Smith's smallest speaker is a sonic gem, looks beautiful with it's matching stands and competes with speaker way above its price range. | |
| Review: NSR Sonic Research D3 Sonata Speaker Hi Geared4me, to answer your questions:1) I run all Stealth cables in my system, Indra-Metacarbon IC's and Dream Petite speaker wire, have extensive experience with Mod Wright preamps and have had Nelson Pass amps in my system for over twenty year... | |
| 2 Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II IC's too much? Antonkk, at one time in my system I had all Acoustic Zen wires, 4 pairs of Silver Reference 11's, and they did not add any "brightness" at all. Just great details/speed, liquidity, natural timbres and a large and layered soundstage. The Matrix is ... | |
| Passlabs XA .5 vs Ayre MXR I had mentioned a while back on an old thread that had auditioned the Ayre MXR's and thought they were ok, but no were as "musical" and lacked the liquidity of my Pass Labs XA-100's.Of course personnal taste and system synergy are always going to ... | |
| Best preamp for and EAR890 / ESL57 rig Ggavetti, take a look at my recent Gon review of the Audio Valve Eklipse preamp, which is in your budget range. In a past review, on the ASL's Flora preamp I discuss my auditioning of a Shindo Labs linestage that was ok, but nothing special in my ... | |
| Bryston 14B-SST or Pass Labs X 350.5 Hi Rydenfan, I have a hunch that you are Ted B's good friend. I have listened/auditioned both Bryston and Pass Labs over the years, and still believe that the Pass X.5, XA and XA.5 series are some the most musical and natural sounding SS amps I ha... | |
| 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... |