I'll be selling my Lokius in Europe if anyone's interested. Silver and mint.

Mine is completely silent as was my Jot 1. DAC is Bifrost 2/64 connected via XLR, nothing else is connected to the Jot. I used to have a Lokius inbetween connected via XLR and RCA, had no noise then as well.

If any wants a Jelly Epoch Dewdrop, Aaru TKL Sand or Aaru65 Divine Black send me a PM. Keycaps I have with them are GMK Botanical 2, SA Ramses and GMK Pharaoh, with heaps of artisans, Sphinx as well.

There is a schematic in the back of the manual. If you don’t have a paper manual you can download it here: https://luxmanamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/P-750u_eng_AG00987E68A_20170817.pdf

Another vote for Forza here, I'm using the Noir Hybrid HPC. Not that the cables are cheap but they're a lot more reasonably priced than competitors.

Ok, I'd go for the tubeless option then and look for a pair of Takatsuki around 1600€. 600€ less and another 800€ since I would have taken the upgraded Full Music tubes makes only a 200€ difference. Or are the Full Music tubes really good as well?

How much price reduction is there for tubeless?

I saw them at a local shop, 2500€ per pair ... :( And how are the 800€ upgrade tubes available with the amp?

Anybody tried Takatsuki 300B?

Not that I'm aware of, I just saw that I can order form Poland and I'm in EU.

Thank you, very helpful. Positive for me on point 1 and 3. 2 is harder to tell, I don't especially need o9ldschool 300B sound but it should at least sound tubey compared to a solid state amp for me.

I'm considering getting the Envy amplifier but 3 questions are on my mind: - is the background absolutely balck or do some people have problems wit hiss/hum? - does it have the typical 300B sound: dreamy mids, not bright and a bit bloomy bass? - is the amp fully balanced internally?

As promised I'm letting you know I received the 2 pairs of spare Focal Radiance earpads. They are original Radiance pads, have the two kinds of fabric on the inner side of the pads, leather on the outside, same thickness. I bought them from iEar.nl .

Sold the Schiit Lyr to c0rp1, we had nice communication and a very smooth transaction. Since we live rather far apart he helped find a nice solution for the shipping. Highly recommended!

Will, do, I'm waiting for them to come in, hopefully in a week or 2. For now I can only tell you what they told me: they claim that the distributor had 1 pair in stock, they claim they could order a second pair and they confirmed me it would be the Radiance specific pads. But I can only confirm...