Ignoring the chassis, you've got quite a bit of capacity just in the fins. I'm out on the road now but once I get back from this trip, I might have to napkin math the P,diss and guesstimate what kind of action the sinks are seeing. Assuming a stright-fin arrangement it would be...

    Same for spotify premium. I have it for the convenience of being on phone + multiple computers, downloading stuff for when I'm out of cell range, and just usability and discovery of music. I use it mostly in environments where I'm not going to be focused on the music (work, play...

  Open as in "as they come". Vs covering them with a dab of silicone or a piece of tape. The latter brings down the bass but it sounded much more compressed to me. The number of tracks where its like "WHOAH" that's too much bass vs living with a compressed sound just wasn't worth leaving the...

Been a few months now with mine, only a couple additions:   There's some plastic stops in the cans that keep them from over-rotating when not on your nogin (as in the actual ear pieces rotating downwards and out. I had one come off and start to rattle around for a bit, so being the person I am...

  I run into the same issue. At home I've got original pressings of 2,3,4,Hoh (an RL master at that), and PG along with the re-released masters for 1,2,3. Those all get played on a dual table with an AT cart. Nothing fancy but it does pretty well. In comparison to at work I've got both a...

@Jason Stoddard, You'll have to forgive my lack of knowledge on the matter but why does it *have* to (in terms of your opinion) be a relay for output muting? From what I remember/have found is that they (muting relays in DAC's) are used primarily because when the data stream gets interrupted...

  These were the WORST. Some of the stuff I supported at my previous job started to go over to QFN.I can remember helping test/dev with multiple chips. Get the ole heatgun out and flow the damn heatsink pad before doing all the legs. In the end though it was cheaper to pay an eng in training to...

This is always an argument that will be found in any popular "community". I might get lynched here but I think the guys that want the "quick and easy" mods like swapping caps...etc...are a lot like the guys that put "cold air intakes" on their vehicles and then walk the walk. There's a...

You can make sand sound like tubes, actually quite easily. The drive and authority is going to come from the output stage and I doubt I'll ever know the answer to this one but if they (schiit) are using a global NFB loop it stands to reason that's why you're loosing a bit of the punch and...

  I'm familiar with the "asgard incident". Also I've no particular bias one way or another, my Fulla has a noisy pot on it for whatever reason but I don't adjust my volume at all so I just deal with it. My point was that up until post #772 not a one had said for conditions X,Y, and Z being...

I've not (yet) had a chance to listen to a Vali2 (due to lack of funds on my part) but there's some food for thought here.   Since a bunch of you have a seeming hard-on for the starlight I decided to look it up.   1) Its ugly. Even their aluminum "chassis" is just a couple plates on...

  Not to try and derail Jason's thread....My experience from using a CT or a virtual CT on filament supply for elevating them primarily was to stay under the V,h-k rating. I guess in most of my stuff I've always had to elevate the heaters one way or another so I'm not entirely sure how positive...

The stuck pixel that cannot be "unseen" on the monitor.....I know the feeling.   As an aside I'd not expect any distortion from any amplifier so long as you've got a quality set of cans. Usually this (distortion/clipping/whathaveyou) comes from overdriving a gain stage somewhere *or* you've...

    Absolutely some tubes are going to be more susceptible to noise than others. Even in the world of noisy 12ax7's there's several 'LPS' versions that have a lower noise floor than others.   Additionally, I'd expect high-gain mode on low-Z cans to reveal some noise. I'm (obviously) not 100%...

  Any reason for the flip-flopping? I don't mean that in a negative way but (as you're probably aware) this is ALWAYS a topic of discussion. On one side you've got the guys saying AC filaments will NEVER be quiet and on the other side, of course guys saying that they're (ac filaments) just...

  It's quite literally just finding iterations of the same family of tube that were manufacture with...well...longer plates. Some examples.

  Some guys say that yes, longer plates will give you more treble and a bit more "airy" sound along with a little more presence. I've not done an A-B myself so I can't say with 100% certainty but I've heard it around a few watercoolers.

I've had mine for a week now and am really enjoying them. This was my first step into "mid-fi". For perspective, I like a nice rounded sound, preferably more on the warmer side. I listen to everything from Beethoven, Beetles, Bruce Springsteen, Blondie, and Tristam (couldn't think of one of my...

  Tis true. In my initial flury of head-scratching about tubes that could work I overlooked that fact. Still looks like a fun little preamp tube for the $5 you find em for, I'll just buy the poor sod a case of beer and use the 5670's somewhere along the way.

W.r.t. the phono stages....There's only so many ways to twist a pig to get bacon. You've got to have a specific filter for proper sound reproduction on a record. Also the biggest improvement can be found in adding a sand buffer at the end of em (if you're using tubes) because the 12ax7 has...

    Can't say anything on stock tube vs otherwise but as far as rolling goes.....it gets dangerous :p   You are correct that the noval (9-pin) tube that works in the vali2 is a twin triode (not a dual, those can be different triodes in the same tube). So now where the "difference" comes in...

  The big thing is that you have a source connected. Make that voltage swing. The process just kind of cleans off the plates and gets its bias point to settle in well. The theory is that by applying a source and getting it to swing through its max range of output, you're just covering more of...

With you guys that are rolling, how long are you letting tubes settle in if they're brand new? I've found that in the first two days (cum. 24 hrs or so) of listening that your sound will change and that the tubes will take a bit to settle in. I can't say this is true on a vali per-say but the...

  You want an R2R? Well....do ya...punk?  

 The difference between "good girls" and "bad girls" is that good girls choose who they're bad with......   On that note, I did in fact scrounge together a list of possible candidates. Some of which I'm not 100% on. This is just kind of a random musing from my end of things that might be worth...