"Phil North" wrote in message

Hi all,

I took a bit of a gamble and bought a valve phono stage off ebay
recently. Upon hearing it I thought the sound was great but lacking in
bass but put that partly down to the equipment I was using it with
(home made speakers that have lived in the loft for 10 years).

I took it round to Keiths on Tuesday and tried it on all his amps and
it was still bass light on his Dynavox and WAD amps but to my ears was
absolutely superb on the triode amp. This amp seemed to bring out the
bass and make the sort of sound I am searching for, something I could
listen to all day with any kind of music.

Why bother with equalizers when you can do more expensive heavy lifting with
tubed amplifiers?