Audio Valve Eclipse Preamp
 

Anyone here familiar with this little guy? I'd be interested in comments, opinions, ramblings, hypotheses, pontifications, musings and the like.

Thanks


click image for stereophile write-up


http://www.stereophile.com/images/ar...t/807vavle.jpg

That's a pretty little thing, isn't it? The write-up was pretty good, except this line gave me pause,..."Clean and dramatic though the Eclipse certainly was, both the Shindo Aurieges ($3895) and Masseto ($11,500) preamplifiers allowed melodic lines to sound more organic and less mechanical—or, if you will, more like music and less like mere sound. That was especially true of the way those preamps played back the human voice"

Might want to check out the Shindo??

I hear abot Audio Valve Eclipse only the best.Eclipse was compared with AR Reference3 and Conrad Johnson ACT2.I think this is the best value for the money.There is also a big brother Conductor,but he is more than twice expensive.