Aesthetix Rhea Signature

Aesthetix Rhea Signature for sale. Condition is closer to 9/10, i can't find a scratch, dent, speck, fingerprint on it. I also have a black faceplate, so if silver is not your thing, I'll be including a black faceplate you can swap out in a few minutes.

Absolutely no issues. Remote never used. Original packing materials and outer box is fantastic shape as well. The unit has been in my 'heavy rotation' for a while, and I've got to make some tough decisions on what phonostage I am going to keep. I've had an absolute blast with this. A tube rollers delight. Sounds fantastic with any of the dozen or so carts I've had the pleasure of owning over the past few years. Even super low gain carts do well as this unit has quite a bit of gain, and even with being tube based, is very low noise. I've heard solid state with a higher noise floor.

For the tubes, i have the original set from Aesthetix, graded and matched and never installed, as I immediately started rolling tubes. I will include those, along with a new set of current production matched Gold Lion 12ax7 and 6922s. This unit is a tube rollers dream. Responds SUPER WELL to some of the classics. Mullard, Telefunken and Amperex have yielded excellent results. If you would like to talk about your system, i can make some recommendations. I have tons of signal tubes, mostly NOS. Since MC carts can require a 10,000x signal amplification, a good quality, MATCHED set of tubes, with low noise, and with ultra low microphonics is almost mandatory. If you are running MM, maybe a 'touch' less mandatory. If you would like to purchase a full tube compliment to go along with this, let's chat, I'd love to hear about your cart(s), and rest of system, and your tastes, I can make a recommendation.

If you care to purchase a nice set to go along with this as detailed above, we can work something out as a package deal

Reason for sale....need to thin the herd a bit, i have a stack of underutilized gear, and I need to consolidate. I will also be listing another solid state phonostage as well. My preamp with the optional integrated phonostage will have to do! i know...i know....first world problems! As you can see, the unit has been very well cared for in a well-curated system. I don't really want to part with it, but my wife is like 'come on, Greg, really?'. yeah yeah yeah...I get it....

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