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In the Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps
Post Subject: That sucks.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/18/2013
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That sucks. I use to have a box of perhaps a dozen of YO186 but I did not see it for a while, pretty much from the time I moved to new house. I was listening today some of my “critical” reference stuff and concluded with very high certainty that my MF is gone, it just does not have the tonal yield that it use to have.
Well, the way how Milq is built is very simple to put in there any 45/2A3 or any 4V European tube, so I did today for a couple hours. To my disappointment I did not get the Sound that I was getting before. Other tubes give me very clean and very effective sound but none of them can do brass that my old YO186 was able to do. I am looking for very specific portraying of brass micro- bubbling, of that super-granular, abrasive, coarse tonal texture, when overtones clash like waves during Nor'easter storm and harmonics have legs growing right from neck down. My other best tubes, including my best Nazi tubes, just do not got for that brass complexity and their brass sound more like string’s rosin bite. With YO186, when it was alive, brass was felid with zillion explosive micro-bubbles that make it immensely pleasurable and super fascinating to listen. When NDR Symphony unleash own brass in Bruckner it is no tomorrow in my playback without my YO186. I want my brass back, I want my YO186 back. I only hope that Amy did not learn how all those tubes cost and did not pound them in order to raise money to by her new cosmetics….
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