World-class triode tube preamplifier, with zero-feedback and transistor-like figures.
Favorably replaced my YBA 1 preamp. Two other guys choosed the Incito to replace their YBA Signature classic preamp (6 chassis).
The only preamp that decided passive preamp owners to get back to an active preamp.
That thing is not of this world: big and heavy (75lbs !!), 3 chokes, can drive loads as low as 250 Ohms, and holds the extreme low end (no other zero feedback triode preamp can) !
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DETAILS over its SOUND:
As far the listening is concerned, I was not prepared for such a !!! SHOCK !!!
After only 30 min of warming up, the Aries Cerat Incito had conquered me after 2 tracks.
To sum up, in comparison with my YBA 1 preamp:
- Much wider stage
- significantly deeper stage
- more transparent (YES!!! more transparent than a YBA 1!!!). But only slightly ;-)
- more height in the stage (!)
- MUCH more DYNAMIC (tubes)
- and the cherry on the cake: timbre, TIMBRES, T-I-M-B-R-E-S !!! TIMBRES !!! Oh My God! MUCH better timbres, singers now sing also with the chest, the wood of the instruments sound much fuller, etc.
- it does NOT sound like a typical tube (I hate their honey-topping on
everything). It is super-fast, transparent and dynamic. Terrifically lifelike.
- no highs roll-off, with sweet and lifelike treble, extremely well integrated with the mid.
- can tightly handle extreme low bass (most of tube preamps cannot).
- Practically speaking, it dos not get warm, tubes last 10.000 H and
replacement by Aries Cerat selected and validated tubes cost $150.
Peanuts. It reassured me enough to take a leap in the "dark" (even if
tubes emit light).
- remote-controlled with a efficient and silent system. What a comfort ! ( >< YBA 1, full manual).
- uses a better tube than the ubiquitous 6H30 (they compared, the manufacturer told me).
- at the heart of the Incito there is a small single ended triode (SET)
zero feed-back amplifier, in a single stage, acting as an active
preamplifier that could drive any load.
- Output Impedance : <50 Ohm, so would drive your monoblocks easily.
My system made a quantum leap forward. The best upgrade ever. I could keep the Incito 1 week at home, and could barely recognized my system...We all know a preamp is important. But such a shock !
