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Reviews

Reviewer: Srajan Ebaen (6moons.com)

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Reviewer: Marja & Henk (6moons.com)

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(...) Conclusion: I'm back on tubes. These days I can only stomach very small doses. I don't want to relinquish the low-level resolution, drive, bass control, speed and attack clarity of transistors nor their super-fine top end once transistors equate to the kind of Power JFets Nelson Pass uses these days. Pretty much the only area where for my tastes more remains possible is in the tone color intensity bracket. Yet I'd not tolerate gains there if they weighed down things with undue mass. For the glowing bits, that's a quite narrow window of opportunity or acceptance. Interstage transformer coupling to eliminate the blurriness and thickness of coupling capacitors plus class A pentode rather than triode drive in push/pull rather than single-ended mode and most carefully administered feedback seem to have done the desired business here.

It might not be enough for other tube lovers who wish to harvest more tube flavor richness. The EL84 could be too pedestrian for others. Fair enough. For what I wanted, it's absolutely perfect. Bull's eye. What more could one possibly hope for when entrusting such a very personal project to a faraway designer when means of communication are email and the occasional phone call? Sasa Cokic and team have delivered and made this punter very happy indeed. Thank you. (Srajan Ebaen)