Hi John.
I knew I was probably going to get spanked for that "digital edge" comment. :) Guess I was really trying some bogus rationalization technique. Thanks for sharing some of your tube experiments with the IO. As it happens, I do have some of the Ei's. I'll have to give them a try in both the Rhea and Calypso. I checked again and the 6922 that is installed right now in V5 of the Rhea is the JAN-Phillips ($20) as I believe I had read somewhere that a poster had gotten the Rhea a bit quieter using these. I'll have to swap those out with the originals to see if there is much of a difference since I'm guessing I could hear that easier with the Calypso in the path than with the BAT.
I think I have found some Tele's and Amperex 6922's to try in the Calypso. I'll have to keep my eyes open for reasonably priced Mullards to give a listen to. Thanks for the offer to loan some to me, very nice of you. I may take you up on that if I have trouble finding some. As for the Tele's, do you find much difference between the smooth and the ribbed?
That's a nice thing about the Rhea/Calypso combo, and probably the Janus as well. There are several places along the signal path to change the sound abit. Then this number grows even more with the Callisto and Io. The BAT is wonderful, but not much room to tweak should one feel the urge.
I knew I was probably going to get spanked for that "digital edge" comment. :) Guess I was really trying some bogus rationalization technique. Thanks for sharing some of your tube experiments with the IO. As it happens, I do have some of the Ei's. I'll have to give them a try in both the Rhea and Calypso. I checked again and the 6922 that is installed right now in V5 of the Rhea is the JAN-Phillips ($20) as I believe I had read somewhere that a poster had gotten the Rhea a bit quieter using these. I'll have to swap those out with the originals to see if there is much of a difference since I'm guessing I could hear that easier with the Calypso in the path than with the BAT.
I think I have found some Tele's and Amperex 6922's to try in the Calypso. I'll have to keep my eyes open for reasonably priced Mullards to give a listen to. Thanks for the offer to loan some to me, very nice of you. I may take you up on that if I have trouble finding some. As for the Tele's, do you find much difference between the smooth and the ribbed?
That's a nice thing about the Rhea/Calypso combo, and probably the Janus as well. There are several places along the signal path to change the sound abit. Then this number grows even more with the Callisto and Io. The BAT is wonderful, but not much room to tweak should one feel the urge.