Here Alessandro Pagani demonstrates the cover swap on the preamp. The entire operation took three minutes.


Here is the preamp in the raw. Note the extra depth of the knobs to clear the cover.


The preferred valves are Siemens 6922s particularly for the phono section.


MM and MC have six loading options each and the dedicated phono level control also offers six adjustments.


Here are the bits making up the valve protection.


The resident speaker harem includes Armonia line sources and large custom 4-ways—more on both later—while one wall shelf showed numerous covers in a number of finishes.


The burn-in protocol presently spans a full month.