ifi iTube 2

I have a real problem with ifi ITube, and is that when it goes out from the sound I really miss is magic it does, the brain misses the natural presentation and body that the iTube gives to the sound.

 

With the iTube in the middle ou the audio chain the presentation and soundstage is more human and the overall result is longer audio sessions without fatigue.

 

This is something you notice immediately when you take it out, the body and the magic it does simply vanish, so you can’t live without it, that’s the effect of valves.

 

So for sometime now I was planning listening the the iTube 2, the one in the photos, and… It’s an evolution, it appears small saying this way but believe me it’s an enormous evolution from the original, I do not know how ifi pulls it out, but they impress me with every itineration of their micro line, it start’s where the original iTube made to the sound and everything is more transparent, detailed, warmer if you desire.

 

And the switches, this time we have better and more to explore, you can up the bass to 6db if you have speakers that can go only to 40Hz, or 12bd for speakers that only go to 80Hz, or you can go totally crazy and go in big speakers and up the bass, your house will be full of bass notes, I have made this in Stanley Clarke At the Movies album and the bass that the solo 6be produced made my room almost break.

 

The iTube 2 also have a new better 3d implementation, as I listen on my desktop I have used it on some tracks, and the new implementation is much better than the original iTube, as this is a question of personal preference and in some cases it’s an effect I like, and use it in classical, ambient or new age, it’s grows on you. For me this one turns some albums in magical one, and a new way of experimenting them.

 

So this iTube 2 iteration is a go for me, it’s difficult when you have such an upgrade like this in your audio to have to go back, and I do not want to go back, this will stay.

Done