Tag: Elrog

ER801a Driver Stage

ER801a as Driver in my system

Received the ER801a today back from Thomas. They were working fine, it was a faulty UX-4 socket pin of my tracer which annoyingly made the grid to appear faulty and open at certain voltage level. I need to replace it.

Either way, they are now in my system and I can only say how much I was surprised with the sound of these. They take the detail and timbre of the VT-25 to a next level. Amazing result, happy to have these as part of my driver stage. The preamp is the 201a feeding the ER801a into the 4P1L PSE. 

Highly recommended valves, worth the price indeed.

EML-20A DHT Preamp

Recently I posted about this amazing DHT. Although my original intent was to use them as part of my Parafeed headphone project, I decided to try them as first stage on my system. I have been playing lately with mid-mu DHTs with great success, and this valve didn’t let me down at all.

Continue reading “EML-20A DHT Preamp”

ELROG ER801-A Review

I’ve been listening for over a week the Elrog ER801a prototypes. I can say that I’m very please with them. Before I make any further impressions about their sound, let me start from the beginning.

I purchased last year from ELROG (now Deutsche Elektronenröhren Manufaktur GmbH.) a pair of these valves to be used on my VT25/10Y preamp.  I do not own any 801a, but have a good stash of NOS VT25 and 10Y valves. I love this preamp, probably my favourite with the 01a.

Thomas Mayer offered me to send me a preliminary set of prototype valves in advance so I can submit them to the mercy of my tests. That sounded like really good fun and also I thought that the folks out there would be very keen to see the results.

Continue reading “ELROG ER801-A Review”