I’ve been txting with a guy in Singapore who has just tried both the Acme 805s and Acme 300Bs on his Line Magnetic SET and horn setup. He has a lot of experience with valves and he seems really impressed.
His first impressions on the Acmes... that the tone was very right, they have a great expressive way of communicating the emotional content in music, the force of plucked instruments was easily discernible, vocals were vivid and expressive, bass was authoritative and controlled and the valves exhibited a low noise floor.
Very much looking forward to hearing about your experiences Kodomo with your new Acmes.
I have the same amp in question, and from a 300b standpoint, the Elrogs do what you are talking about - transparency without sacrificing tone. Hopefully the Acme 805 straddles that line successfully. Does anyone have experience with the Psvane CNE 805 tubes. They are in the same ballpark price wise and an eventual comparison with their new Acme series will be helpful.I would be interested to hear if transparency was traded in for tone...which is a classic. Its extremely rare that you get both transparency and a nice, full tone, which together makes a real liquid, flowing music....and a comparisonto Elrog would be very intersting, I agree...its TT filament should have the lead on transparency I would guess...
Blitz, what amp do you have, and what speakers?
Tubes have arrived but sadly one of them (one on the left) is leaky so it wont work. I am sending them back. It looks much better quality than their usual stuff but unlucky me...
ps. I wrote to company I bought from and they told me not to worry as these have 2 years warranty. Will update on the situation. The company is GD Parts, China.
It seems that our friend Shakti experienced already twice the same.Tubes have arrived but sadly one of them (one on the left) is leaky so it wont work. I am sending them back. It looks much better quality than their usual stuff but unlucky me...
ps. I wrote to company I bought from and they told me not to worry as these have 2 years warranty. Will update on the situation. The company is GD Parts, China.
Tubes have arrived but sadly one of them (one on the left) is leaky so it wont work. I am sending them back. It looks much better quality than their usual stuff but unlucky me...
ps. I wrote to company I bought from and they told me not to worry as these have 2 years warranty. Will update on the situation. The company is GD Parts, China.
It is all DIY.
Speakers are 2.2 meter high Line Sources with 12 Ribbon Fountek FT2 (each14 cm) and 18 4" Eton Kevlar chassis. Wall-Corner-bass-horns.
Amp is a two-Stage 300B-Push-Pull currently, fixed bias, IT-coupled, 6k-OPT running at 450V, 60mA. Two 6sn7 in parallel together at 20mA running the IT, which is an amorphous Monolith ITA-02. Next will be DHT EML20 as drivers.
The whole thing driven by My DAC with Differential TUbe Stage 801A and OPT. No caps in the signal path, PSUs all with 866 mercury. No lytics anywhere. DC-Heated with Coleman Regs.