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Reviews (9)
Feb 03, 2021
"One drop at a time my dear boy!"
Long, metal tube allows precise application of one drop at a time. Less waste than the small plastic tubes which are sloppy, leak everywhere, and run out way too quickly. The D100L has the most cleaning power of the other types they make, and is highly recommended when you want the most cleaning action. A+
Jun 20, 2018
Recommended alternative to Canare, Mogami quad
Recommended alternative to Canare and Mogami professional quad cables. Cables 'mostly' get out of the way and sound tonally balanced. I used some Monsters before which had over emphasized lows and highs and scooped out mids, like a smiley-faced equalizer curve. I recommend these cables. I have all three types. To my ears, Canare and Mogami sound most alike to one another and really open up once broken in. Van Damme sound a little different, not better but mostly on par with C&M and are still getting burned in.
Nov 29, 2019
Great Value for Clean Tube Sound
2 of 2 found this helpful This is a great kit, and a fun build with decent instructions. What struck me is the cleanliness of the sound even at high volume with a complete inaudibility of hiss. At the normal unity gain setting, you'll notice you'll have to really crank the volume to reach your desired spl, but it's ok, because you have the 3x gain option as well and it maintains its tight, fully-fleshed, focused control on sound reproduction even when pushed past a 2 o' clock setting on the volume dial on normal unity gain setting.
I found it to be extremely transparent if your source, power amp, speakers and placement, cables and interconnects are up to the challenge. It is neutral, transparent, and very easy to listen to over extended periods and not classically "tubelike", warm or even sterile or clinical for that matter. Try listening to something like a SACD player through it and you will be impressed with its detail retrieval, fleshed out bottom end and airy highs.
Like any kit, there are opportunities to substitute your own parts if you like to experiment with the resulting outcome of sound which I did in an attempt to make it even a little warmer, "tubelike" or vintage HiFi sounding. However, all parts supplied are well-considered and of very high quality. In fact I found it somewhat difficult to source parts of higher quality than what is originally supplied. There is no reason to have to sub anything, really. But of course, you can tube roll as well.
I chose to upgrade to the Shuguang 'Sounds of Nature' tubes and vintage Philips polycarbonate coupling capacitors, a few strategically placed Elna Silmic electrolytics, Dale resistors in a few areas, and polystyrene caps in the phono section. If you plan on doing any amount of tube rolling, I recommend upgrading to heavy-duty ceramic tube sockets as the stock, plastic ones are flimsy when pushed in.
I can tell you it is rock steady and maintains a very clean, accurate, transparent sound whether you stick with all stock parts or substitute some of your own, much like how Elekit gives you an AMTRANS resistor option. Any way you slice it, it's a great sounding preamp with a clean, robust circuit design and a pretty good phono stage as well with the ability to swap its opamps to change the phono's flavor. I only wish it had one more set of RCA inputs however, so I could simultaneously hook up all my gear at once. Great preamp, I highly recommend it.