First Sound vs Aesthetix

"Quiet and reliable"...sounds like a girl you'd take home to meet the parents.

"More euphonic"...how you want the girl you intoduced to the parents to be when the lights go out.

Tvad: That is exactly why I own the Callisto Sig. And with a careful change of her tubes, she quiets down.

Yeah, my preamp is a lady when I first turn her on, but after she gets warmed up she becomes an absolute whore.

Leave it to Gunbei to clear up any confusion!

;)

The FS is generally quieter although some have had positive results w/ changing the tubes on the Aesthetix. I recently did a comparison of my FS pres del-2 against the Calypso and besides the FS being quieter and perhaps slightly more detailed, I did not find the calypso to warm things up alot, although it did portray images as slightly rounder. I did not hear anything that made me want to change to the aesthetix.