Yeah Zach's Seahorse Case's are perfect travel cases! They are are brutally well made near indestructable and nicely cushioned inside! Envious of your Bimble Box! Would love a pair of Aussie Eucalytptus Burl. That show Mag set in Black on the page is to die for, what wonderfully multiversally...

Thanks so much for your thoughts, well wishes and kindness, jgwtriode

Wow, feeling a bit better so have been doing quite a bit more listening tonight. With these new Natti's(National Union 6JGT's) the Airmid is dead quiet. Full tilt on, no input its dead quiet and the slight microphonics in the one tube are virtually gone. I tap the base of the amp hard and I...

Just a thought for conditioning the leather on your ZMF's. Started using Bick 5 Complete Leather Care. Same stuff I use on my cowboy boots and on my dress shoes. Helps keep the leather soft, supple and clean. Noticed that it very slightly softens the BBB and the crescent strap over a few...

LoL! Hahaha! Too funny Monster! Ahh but this 2A3 Keenan is building for Zach could be one for the ages with that Nano X iron! Hot Damn! jgwtriode

Indeed I would like a matching one for my Airmid! Well when I beat this cancer and take care of the medical, I will indulge in the meantime. But I am beyond thrilled with this red beauty, All tungsol and national union of her! A beautiful wonderous delightful amplifier from the the genius of...

2A3’s are lovely magical things! All about nostalgia and tone, harmonics and reminiscing! All beautiful voluptuous curves and amber orange blue glow! I seriously loved my Bottlehead Paraglows with Vaic cobalt mesh plates and Magnequest cobalt transformers…and silver oil mundorf parafeed caps...

Thanks Monster your too kind! I appreciate all your thoughts, wishes and prayers! One can never have too many good friends! Especially who enjoy the same things! I count it one of my greatest blessings to have gotten to know you! Hopefully if the fates are kind and I trust they are. I will...

Trying to get back to some reasonable routine! I have been out of it for a number of weeks. Just to cut to the chase I have been diagnosed with Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma and am currently being treated for it I do have good doctors, including a wholistic MD. Doing targeted immuno...

Monolith Magnetics Summit Nano X looks very interesting. Nano magnetic amorphous cores. And only one output xfrmr designed for WE300B. Priced accordingly as well. The NanoX product range is envisaged for anyone seeking the ultimate degree of sonic purity. This range makes use of the same...

Any thoughts on why tubes go microphonic after a few months of use. I noticed one of my National Union 6J5GT's started going microphonic a few months ago. Now it has become quite the little transducer. Even light tapping anywhere in the vicinity of it produces a not so lovely singing response...

I feel you brother, but the bottom line is; Zach builds art that sounds as good or better than it looks! And like all brilliant artisans of such he keeps finding ways to improve upon that. I of course madly lust over a Kingswood LTD Atrium closed! Fortunately there is not one yet, and I...

Another Brilliant review Monster! Soundstage was a bit of a concern from what I have read previously. But I am wondering now that Caldera Suedes seem to be the standard thick pad as opposed to thick lambskin variant is that going to drop some of the staging. That has been my experience with...

After Dark Black Magic II on the After Dark site is pretty damn good. It's $232.00. It's quite a bit better than the Blue Jeans. I have both. The Blue Jeans is great, very neutral. But the AD is more dimensional, liquid and has a bit more detail across the board. It sounds both more organic...

Oops. Yeah Tom Miller, formerly of the Absolute Sound loved the Beethoven's on Rowland Electronics and who could argue sound was as good or better than pretty much anything I have heard from anybody. He also knew Siegfried pretty well. Happy listening, jgwtriode