And speaking of unusual high-end audio products here is a crème de crème among ultra-high-end audio products. The latest top-class Aries Cerat Talos Sig phono preamplifier from Mastermind Stavros Danos. Every single product that I had the pleasure to review or listen to for almost a decade was always inspiring, unconventional, and above all musical to the bone. What makes it stand out Aries Cerat from the crowd is the absence of any kind of tube signature. Danos sees and uses tubes as ultra-fast, signature-free devices, and everything is built around this simple but highly complex principle.