Finally I got my Tube Repro and my cable is too short (0.6m) for my Repro which is sharing the same shelf as my Studer. Temporarily holding it up with a storage box. Not ideal at all until I find a better solution
Have my Studer A810 for abt a 1 1/2mths, while it doesnt have the annoying ticking sounds due to dirty vinyl and sounding pretty natural, I find it lacking in bass and not so dynamics. It certainly doesnt float my boat with the stock electronic. With the Tube Repro hooked up, its so much more dynamics and exciting. It has been burnt in for abt 150 hrs by Paul, with another 50 hrs , I believe it should be better. Only grouse I have so far is the presence of a very audible hum when its on standby and in between song. Not very acceptable hum. Both stock and NOS telefunken ef 806s I used is noisy. To be fair I have only 2-3 hrs on it. According to Dan, hopefully after 50 hrs the telefunken ef 806s will quieten down. Anybody with Tube Repro has such experience ?
Other than the noise, it sounded superb. Despite such brief listening I dare said its probably better than my Raven AC3, schroeder fw tonearm, Ensemble phonostage and Ortofon A90 catridge costing more than 3-4x reel to reel set up