Who's into tubes that glow blue in the dark? These new production Tung Sol KT66/7581A looks glowingly good in the dark :) The bass on these Tung-Sol rivals the KT88 in the slam factor IMHO and beats it in sheer presence. Mids are somewhere in between TAD KT66 and KT88 in the lushness. Treble is...

IMHO, I get the gist that the Sus Unveiled won't scale as much as the veiled OG, but at least it's easier to drive and get the most out of it than the OG. With the OG, depending on the chain, it can sound from unengaging or dead flat to OMG incredibly slammy, tight, dynamic, subterranean bass...

Geopolitics gets in the way of fun unfortunately

Now if it's held in Taiwan, I would see far more people residing in the West attending the event

What tube's do you have in the Nautilus?

Team Tung Sol for now! American and Russian Tung Sols meet and greet :)

The newer iterations are 3.5mm. It was 2.5mm originally

Midgard is more mature in the treble refinement than Piety

Bonneville or Black Star is the best choice for slam. However, you will have a slight upper treble emphasis with the Bonneville which adds a good amount of sparkle and is an evolution from the Andromeda family

Literally describing the Arya Organic to me but in Susvara's technicialities

Opens up the 650 similar to tubes without the tube romantic sound!

I think in Asia, social media meetups is where you'll find the exotic stuff instead of head-fi

Loudness war mastering on a really muffled gear sounds great though

LOL. It has to do with the wire gauge rather than the material itself. a 12awg solid core cable will have more rolled-off treble than a multi-sized enamel stranded litz wire: https://www.hflitzwire.com/frequency-as-per-awg-size/

Some people like the way Utopia stages with SET amps and the output impedance elevation (5-8 ohm) really helps take away the sharpness that <1 ohm output impedance amps highlight out of Utopia. With MJ3, it really excels with planars but it won't hide Utopia's sharp nature as it's a very...

Applying for a tourist visa with a US Passport puts off a lot of folks I think at least to me

On my both Triode strapped tube amps, high impedance option allows for the more evocative sound at the cost of grip and control. The key is to roll tubes and that maximizes the good stuff while minimizing the negative effects of others aka find the optimum balance of grip, control, dynamics...

I think you're fine tuning your preferences ever so slightly more to the emotive side of high impedance taps :)

Tube rolling the amp is not a need for the Aegis but I’m still gonna honestly tease you that you’re missing out on lots of awesomesauce if you haven’t tried rolling tubes with the Aegis. I do get where you’re coming from especially when you have a DNA SET amp where tube rolling is somewhat not...

While I haven't tried the 5691s, I have plenty of hours with the RCA 5692 Red Base tube on my other tube amp which shares similar traits with 5691 Red Base based on your descriptions :)

Double check with Justin if you can run other 274B other than the Sophia Blue bottle. Input capacitor must be not higher than 4uF-11uF for other 274B tubes to work

Elrog or KR are some of the best ones out there. Can’t go wrong with those

Without the Z10E or a proper amp, Susvara might sound a bit limp on dynamics especially when compared to Arya Stealth. Biggest difference though is you get more of a spherical imaging with the Sus rather than expansive and wide Arya Stealth

Totally forgot that the Dangerous is balanced only. I'll bring the Yggy MiB then. I can also share my DAC to anyone with a balanced amp as well

Thanks Alan! Wow that’s a crazy treat! Can’t really ask for more if everything works out: Raal, Focals and Susvara unveiled, holy trinity of headphones worth truly checking out!