Tube Technologies MAC phono stage. Thoughts? [Archive]

Spectral Morn

14-09-2014, 19:24

Hi. Does anyone have any experience with this stage? I have a 1210 and a denon dl103r ...

No, however I knew Zia TTs main man and designer quiet well and not only did I like him a lot but I know he was very passionate and fastidious in what he did. However in saying that he did can the valves he used on his integrated and power-amplifiers a bit more than was ideal. In short the valves lost life by being run hard i.e he pushed them a bit above their power envelopes.

In saying the above I still liked what I heard via TTs products, the Unisis integrated and the Fulcrum CD player but I never got the opprtuinity to hear the pre or phonostage but I feel I can still say they will be good, but may not be right for your system - you will need to try them to know.

Regards Neil