Hello,
A long time ago I had the Primaluna EVO 400 tube amp and really didn’t work out to good so for a couple years I have been switching back and forth using the Pass Labs XA-25 amp and the First Watt Sit-4 that’s 10 watts, it sounds really good driving my Volti Lucera speakers. I have a couple friends who use the Eaton amps one has the Joseph Crowe 2087 speakers with the Eaton 2A3 monos, the other friend the same speakers I have the Volti Lucera that has a 15 inch woofer. Kevin with the 2A3 likes the 2A3 more and David likes the 45 he has the Lucera. So I am wondering which one for me. I bought my Volti Lucera from Kevin who has the Crowe speakers now and when I picked them up he had the Eaton 2A3 monos on them but didn’t get much time to really listen. The Sit-4 really brings in a sound that is dynamic is it a tube like sound I don’t know, a little softer around the edges would probably be better for me being retired and have all day to play music. Here are a few examples of the music I listen to, Monolink, Sohn, Bob Moses Rufus Du Sol, Bronze Whale,&Poles, selective electronic music ..
I recently down sized my system, it was getting out of control, many dacs hooked to my Pass Labs preamp so being I only stream I sold all those dacs, streamers, preamp and bought the Meitner MA3i dac/streamer with a volume control and hook it directly to the amp then to the speakers making a much more simple system less cables and crap everywhere and it sure sounds great, the Meitner is really something else. So going to experiment with a tube amp being I have the Sit-4 and trying a tube amp for fun. 2A3 or 45 that’s the question, one good thing the Eaton amps aren’t expensive, oh what transformer are you using on the Eaton, my friend Kevin says Tamura transformer or don’t get one…what Volti speakers did you listen to?
Thanks for the info,
Chuck
