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Originally Posted by runeight 

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Very cool.

 

Having owned and loved the Agent Orange Stacker myself (now owned by Curra), I look forward to this amp! (I miss that little orange fellow)

 

Congrats on becoming a new head-fi sponsor!

 

Aha, one of the Orange Stacker owners. That amp seems to have traveled around some. One of the few living Stackers. The LG is better and more stable in every respect, but I believe that the sound dynamics are the same or better.

Unfortunately the wiring didn't hold up in it, so it is in pieces in a box atm, along with a bunch of Stacker II parts. I have been lazy resurrecting it. At the moment I'm using one of dbel84's other builds. IMO if you have improved upon the Stacker II I reckon that will be a good thing as with my Sony XBA3 IEMs, which have a really off-the-wall impedance curve, the Stacker II doesn't sound right. It is true to its design of sounding like the tubes though.

Looking forward to it!  My relationship with the Stacker wasn't always very smooth, but I am mostly left with fond memories of it.

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Originally Posted by runeight 

Yes, the DIY stackers were, I think, not quite ready for prime time and that's why there are so few of them. The LG, OTOH, seems to be. Perhaps dbel will have time to comment.

Just a few words ;-) 

Alex has worked really hard on this design to get it to where it has finally evolved. It has always been the design that I have been biased towards and eventhough some of the builds suffered minor inconsistencies, it just has a way of presenting music that is hard to resist. Very strong and punchy bass, neutral vocals and instrument detail with "microambience" ( the only word I think to adequately describe this ) , that subtle tonal decay and sense of time between notes. I am an orthohead and this amp has always just sounded so very good with any of my orthodynamic headphones. The Class A  FET output has more than enough current to handle any of the tough contenders , it drivers the legendary Wharfedales with ease. When the LF came along, I had a hard time as the early predecessors did not have any of these sonic characteristics and it was always an easy distinction for me. There is definitely much more tube variation with the Liquid Glass and I was a non-believer in intrinsic tube sound until I had spent as much time tube rolling with this amp design. There are folk who feel that an amp should be optimised around a single tube and the beauty of this amp is that it can be adjusted enough to allow several tube types to operate within their linear operating range. This amp is not a "tubey" amp with compressed high distortion , it is everything one would want in a solid state amp but with a whole lot of soul. 

..dB

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Originally Posted by dBel84 

 

Just a few words ;-) 

 

Alex has worked really hard on this design to get it to where it has finally evolved. It has always been the design that I have been biased towards and eventhough some of the builds suffered minor inconsistencies, it just has a way of presenting music that is hard to resist. Very strong and punchy bass, neutral vocals and instrument detail with "microambience" ( the only word I think to adequately describe this ) , that subtle tonal decay and sense of time between notes. I am an orthohead and this amp has always just sounded so very good with any of my orthodynamic headphones. The Class A  FET output has more than enough current to handle any of the tough contenders , it drivers the legendary Wharfedales with ease. When the LF came along, I had a hard time as the early predecessors did not have any of these sonic characteristics and it was always an easy distinction for me. There is definitely much more tube variation with the Liquid Glass and I was a non-believer in intrinsic tube sound until I had spent as much time tube rolling with this amp design. There are folk who feel that an amp should be optimised around a single tube and the beauty of this amp is that it can be adjusted enough to allow several tube types to operate within their linear operating range. This amp is not a "tubey" amp with compressed high distortion , it is everything one would want in a solid state amp but with a whole lot of soul. 

 

..dB

indeed!! will always be my person favorite of an amp..well until the LF came around. I would love to listen to this newest iteration which is supposedly several orders of magnitude better in terms of noise figures and a big increase in output drive capability from the DIY stackers. 

Oh, and thanks Alex for supporting the community by becoming a sponsor. Wish you and Cavalli Audio the very best of success.

Hello Alex,

I did not find the LL sponsor thread yet so I will ask here. Can you provide the final (production) specs for the LL (P/P voltage and "bias" current on the output stage)?

Really looking forward to listen to the amp at some point!

arnaud

How many LLs are left unspoken for?  I'd like to grab one up, but that might only happen in early July.

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Originally Posted by runeight 

There are still some left. Please email me.

Done and done.  Thanks!

the liquid glass sounds very interesting indeed. heard a diy stacker II a while back and was

very impressed with the sound it put out (kinda reminded me of a singlepower mpx3 w/ 6bl7gt

tubes for output) but it had a high noise floor which was a deal breaker. i'm also very excited

to hear it will have both the 6.3 and 12.6v heater options. i have so many 12sn7 and 14n7

that's been in boxes crying for some attention. i will be awaiting in anticipation!