VALVET Amps & Pre: any feedback from Audiogoners?


Does anyone have personal experience with VALVET top of the line Amps (50 W) & Soulshine pre-amp? I have been able to lay hands on some positive reviews but trust fellow Audiogoners' personal experience more than reviewers and so-called audio pundits who often seem to exagerate.
Thanks for your input.
lall
I will have the Soulshine/3.5MKII setup shortly and will post my comments after break-in.
I love these very under-rated amps.

Keithr, please report back when you have them. Will be looking forward to your comments.
I am very familiar with the Valvet L2 preamp and have had some time with the Soulshine 6sn7 version, both in my own systems.

The L2 preamp is toneful and has a big, rambunctious sound. The Soulshine is comparatively more disciplined and restrained while being very smooth, resolving and civil. Ironically, there's more violence in the simpler L2. Both are very good preamps for driving SET amplifiers, especially the L2 in light of its assertive event transients, sonic projection and bass discipline. The latest Soulshine is a bit different as being able to leaven the brighter and grungier aspects of push pull tube amps and to inject more tone in solid state amplification. With SET it is finally and dynamically mellow and lovely, though tubes can shade that one way or another.

Using the great 6sn7 tube, the Valvets can be bent to sonic reference via substitution of the many brands, eras and constructions of 6sn7 octal twin triodes. Lots of options to dial them in.

I expect to hear the Class A solid state mono amps soon.

Phil
I am very familiar with the Valvet L2 preamp and have had some time with the Soulshine 6sn7 version, both in my own systems.

The L2 preamp is toneful and has a big, rambunctious sound. The Soulshine is comparatively more disciplined and restrained while being very smooth, resolving and civil. Ironically, there's more violence in the simpler L2. Both are very good preamps for driving SET amplifiers, especially the L2 in light of its assertive event transients, sonic projection and bass discipline. The latest Soulshine is a bit different as being able to leaven the brighter and grungier aspects of push pull tube amps and to inject more tone in solid state amplification. With SET it is finally and dynamically mellow and lovely, though tubes can shade that one way or another.

Using the great 6sn7 tube, the Valvets can be bent to sonic reference via substitution of the many brands, eras and constructions of 6sn7 octal twin triodes. Lots of options to dial them in.

I expect to hear the Class A solid state mono amps soon.

Phil
Has anyone heard either the Valvet bricks ER1 or bricks AR1? Unfortunately, the A.35 MKIII are out of my price range. I'm seriously considering this brand, but there aren't a lot of reviews from consumers.