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been playing with some firebottle kin in recent days
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used for a number of weeks with velleman valve pre which is a very modest pre but not bad at all . does not have the massive holographic soundstage of the modwright but then it cost about 72 times less . big bouncy muscular sounding , every big as good as the departed supernait 2 but that had better holographics . does not get too hot but those little valves can get knocked and lost one 2 days ago getting it back in the rack . fortunately thanks to a very efficient valve company billinton export valves i was up at running in less than 24 hours . impressive . this pre power was used with the very big sounding impulse ta`us
then for a few days used with the tannoy eaton legacy , again big sound and extremely transparent with FM radio , this transparency gave rise to a very very slight hardness at times but very enjoyable . this was using a bel canto pre 3 ss pre amp
so the msb [ costing about 14 times as much as the FB ] was smoother and better in holographics . that said we have previously tried the FB with the velleman with the eatons and that was very good so a better match i think than the ss pre
one thing i noticed was that sometimes there was a slight pop when turning off one of the amps when used with eaton [ not the other ]
i noticed in the instructions that it says the input is dirctly coupled so DC on the input should be avoided . i don`t quite know what this means and thinking of trying another pre amp which says
"DC filament power helps to create an amplifier with low noise and exceptional sonic qualities. " this amp is based on a herron pre amp design i think
and wondering if that means the amps are incompatible , perhaps someone technical can enlighten .
now thanks to our very own jerry [ a big thanks ] i am using the FB with a schiit saga valve passive and that is smoother top end than the velleman and for the money is a cracker
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Tried these lovely monoblocks with a number of pre amps now . Always sounds good , best combo was with the saga pre. Now using a sugden a21se as a pre amp and it makes a very good pre amp although I find the remote a bit imprecise. Still using the stock tubes although have some telefunckens to use sometime
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Still a lot of performance for the price. I do remember mine fondly.
They are delightful , They are beautifully made