New Cavalli Audio Liquid Glass Amplifier - Fall Release - Page 4

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Originally Posted by runeight 

You know, I raced so fast to get it all together for LA I didn't actually weight it. I'll try to do that while I'm here in CO.

Lol!  It doesn't ring, vibrate or move when you plug a headphone into it.  It's fine.  

I would consider the Golden Lions a bare minimum for this amp.

I'm surprised he'll ship with tubes at all. It's made for rollers. If you don't have like...4 sets ready to go already when it gets there that sounds like your fault. :D

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Originally Posted by Anaxilus 

 

Lol!  It doesn't ring, vibrate or move when you plug a headphone into it.  It's fine.  

 

I would consider the Golden Lions a bare minimum for this amp.

On the other hand, if you don't send tubes, users won't be able to enthuse about how thoroughly their NOS beauties trounce the stock tubes, which is part of the fun of tube rolling.

how much will the amp cost? will you be offering different tube sets?

See the previous page, where Alex mentions pricing "between the LF and LL", and this page where he mentions he may not offer tubes at all because rollers already have their favorites.  Makes sense to me, as the amount of time Alex would have to spend hunting down tubes (instead of the customer doing the same) is valuable time he could spend actually building the amps.

It really doesn't make sense for Alex to carry tube sets as this would merely imply a middle man for the buyer and thus a premium cost for tubes that are easily available elsewhere 

remember, this amp can roll near any of the 6922 variants, the 12au7 variants and the 6sn7 variants - this teases out to a list of at least a hundred tube types, let alone manufacturers and vintage  = a tube rollers dream 

I was fortunate enough to give this little amp a listen in LA. I was truly impressed by the sound when driving the HE-6. I'm very familiar with the HE-6 , and have heard it from a variety of amplifiers. Everything about the liquid glass just speaks articulated sound. The control and tightness across the whole spectrum was something I hadn't heard from an amp before, especially powering the HE-6.

Hats off to a wonderful design, Mr. Cavalli

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Originally Posted by daveDerek 

how much will the amp cost?

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Originally Posted by Radio_head 

See the previous page, where Alex mentions pricing "between the LF and LL"

that's informative for those (undoubtedly many who are following this thread) who are very familiar with the Cavalli line and the prices of their products.  for those of us not so up on this it doesn't really help.  for the sake of general knowledge it would be beneficial if someone would someone post those prices as a general range for where the new amp may fall.

http://www.cavalliaudio.com/store

LF-  $3250

LL - $4250

..dB

cool. those prices are helpful.  the other part of the story would be what's the price range for the requisite tube set. obviously that could vary greatly, but what's a general range?

Because it can use so many tubes there's really no good way to put a price on it. For a pair of current production tubes to start with you're looking at about $40 minimum (lookin' at your, JJs). You could probably go out and spend $200+ per tube if you wanted. 

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Originally Posted by daveDerek 

cool. those prices are helpful.  the other part of the story would be what's the price range for the requisite tube set. obviously that could vary greatly, but what's a general range?

Like you said, that could vary greatly.  A new production pair of TS 6SN7's would run $30, while a pair of NOS TS BGRP can run upwards of $600.  I've seen ECC32 pairs go for more than that.  This is not even counting the other variants the LG can do.

The great thing with tube roller's amps is that it's totally dependent on what the roller wants to do.  The amp can vary depending on what sound you're going for and the cost is totally in control of the roller's hands.  The downside is those who just must have the best of everything won't settle until they find the most rare, exotic, and (of course) expensive tubes.  People then factor this into the cost of the amp as in "It's $3XXX, but factor in an extra $500 for tubes", and then don't buy the amp because they can't afford the most expensive configuration possible.  I've seen this happen with Balancing Act buyers and it is a skewed way of looking at things.  A pair of current production EH tubes on the BA is fine, and I'm sure there are many cheap readily available tubes for the LG that will be a knockout.