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Perhaps even more remarkable, once set within a proper habitat, is the sheer anticipation—much like the stillness before a storm—the expectation of experiencing fully unwined and heightened musical drama. This alone elevates the Greek preamplifier to its deserving place among true highlights.

The PST100 MK2 SE circuitry stems from a concept beyond conventional design, breaking free from closed-loop thinking and offering a distinctive proposition: an endgame scenario where emotional impact and dynamic flow are delivered without coloration or compromise— the listening perception itself shifts; regardless of volume, the signal follows in the natural way in sync with how our ears and brain decode sound/music.

Where redundancy plagues many preamplifiers regardless of price, the PST100 MK2 SE stands apart with natural transparency and an extraordinary balancing act. It presents a spatial expansion that respects the recording, maintaining horizontal and vertical equilibrium while providing a harmonious richness, upper-level density, and out-of-ordinary depth. This unearths subtle layers without ever retouching or embellishing the music, depicting it exactly as it is.

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The EAT gave Passos’s voice more haunting depth. It sorted the music better and enlarged its scale. The F-Dur consistently surprised me with its ability to surprise. Even as it expanded the soundstage, it assembled the many elements of a recording into a well-polished, cohesive, refined whole. Hearing this, I felt that the Thorens combo, for all its many virtues, was generalizing some. With the EAT, I heard more specificity—more of what’s on the record, moment to moment.When I swapped out phono stages, the EAT let each shine with its own character: the Tavish Audio Design Adagio‘s lush, tube warmth; the Manley Chinook‘s razor-sharp attack and punch; and the PrimaLuna EVO 100‘s balanced, composed refinement.

https://pt.audio/2025/10/17/triangleart-selene-loudspeakers-review/#google_vignette

The miracle of this album is that despite the simple, quiet arrangements that usually just features Tweedy, his acoustic guitar, and spare accompaniment from his two sons and a few others, this is inventive and unique music led by one of the most comforting and familiar voices I know. The singer I used to think of as nervous and tentative has now blossomed, at age 58, into an unusually effective communicator. The Selene’s gift of delivering a natural and organic sound is so welcome here, bringing incredible depth to the softest and kindest of songs, songs that are genuinely optimistic without abandoning the sadness many of us feel in this day and age. If you want a loudspeaker that preserves emotional content and musical beauty in equal measures, the TriangleArt Selene and a stunning 300B amplifier is all you really need.

https://pt.audio/2025/10/10/vimberg-tonda-d-addendum-review/

After spending a weekend listening anything from Beethoven’s 7^th symphony (with Ivan Fischer at the podium) all the way to the new Tron Ares OST by Nine Inch Nails, to Kuijken playing The Four Seasons on an obscure cello da spalla instrument, to Marcelle Meyer resurrecting Rameau, I came to the conclusion that my Vimbergs were even better than what I have already raved about.

Thing is, modern speakers evolved hand in hand with modern amplifiers and as watts became easier to come by speaker designs, they morphed into insensitive beasts, hard to tame by single ended triode tube amps. Not the TIDAL Audio and Vimberg designs.

It is not just a matter of sensitivity. The Vimberg Tonda D declares a sensitivity of 90dB/1m, which is neither very high nor very low, and on paper it’s about right and similar to what other manufacturers declare, give or take. It has to do with impedance, port tuning, crossover order, complexity and of course the type of drivers.

I won’t go into further technical details, I trust my ears and the humble GM70 monos make gorgeous music with the Vimberg Tonda D. Mids are lush and the highs are velvety. Voices sound human, strings vibrate and cymbals tickle my senses. The surprising part is that I barely miss anything from the lower registers, and this is comparing 23W to a few hundred.