I got in about 5 hours last night, I just couldn't stop listening and comparing. I know the new tubes aren't even burned in yet, but what I heard last night was extremely promising.
This preamp has balls, something I would not normally attribute to a preamp. Bass was deep, extremely tight, and fast. That continued up through the entire spectrum. Soundstage is much improved in depth, width, height, especially localization. It's also dead quiet. Pausing a digital source while listening at very high levels, the Maggie's were totally silent, even with my ear right up to the speakers.
Not at all what I expected from a tube preamp, in a very, very good way. I could not detect any deficiencies comparing it to my current preamp.
This is almost certainly a keeper, at least so far. As an added bonus, the Harmony has definitions for all the remote functions for my hub and remote, and it even has a ht bypass function.
This preamp has balls, something I would not normally attribute to a preamp. Bass was deep, extremely tight, and fast. That continued up through the entire spectrum. Soundstage is much improved in depth, width, height, especially localization. It's also dead quiet. Pausing a digital source while listening at very high levels, the Maggie's were totally silent, even with my ear right up to the speakers.
Not at all what I expected from a tube preamp, in a very, very good way. I could not detect any deficiencies comparing it to my current preamp.
This is almost certainly a keeper, at least so far. As an added bonus, the Harmony has definitions for all the remote functions for my hub and remote, and it even has a ht bypass function.
