This is a really useful comparison as I also have Echo 2. My impression on vocals on Echo mimics yours. Keep it coming. Thank you.

Not just you LoL. But I also have the CNC at the same time. I feel more secure pushing the tubes down with the thick CNC as the base.

This is a yummy amp guys

You can check out Garage1217 amps. I am loving mine till now.

Do you use light dimmer somewhere at your house?

Elise amps has bee using c3g with adapter in place of 6sn7 sockets

Are they drunk?

None other than Project Ember, always works, all the time, for musics, movies. Loved it!

I would put my bet on Garage1217 amps like Project Ember, Horison, Sunrise, it works everytime for all of my headphones, it doesn't embarrassed itself to other big boys amps.

This is super beautiful. They fix all I hated about LF399 aesthetics. A move to the right direction :L3000:

Awesome tube for an awesome amp! Welcome to the family.

Beautiful amp!

If the waiting time is 2 or 3 years, I am wondering how many people will drop off from the list :k701smile:

3-6 months is my max tolerable treshold, hahaha. Is there 'express' option?

It's a pity, I imagine my preference might have changed in a year time.

What's the waiting time for Stratus? Still one year?

I read somewhere it is using TPA6120 in the signal line.

I don't care so much about amp design, heck Class A/B Leben CS-300XS sounds so damn nice 

I am also a 99.5% headphone movie listener. My top priority is also clear dialog. Bass is important but not the most important. With my criteria, i would also consider Koss ESP950, one of the clearest vocal around, bass is very detail with decent impact. Just a suggestion.

Subscribed. UT, you are right, EL3N as driver sounds very nice. It removes the slightly extra warmth that I like less with the stock TS 6SN7 driver.

Yes, it is named K712 :)

Mullard equivalent for 12AT7 is CV4024.

Agree with this. It perhaps happened that Tunkejazz speaker is more capable than his headphone system. With hd800, the difference between DAC is very evident. Actually i heard more detailed sound with hd800 than any speakers I ever listened to. Let's not talk about Martin Logan and above yet :D...

Good or bad, Ember scale up very well with better source. I used to use the very well regarded Audio gd nfb-2 DAC. When I swapped with Audio Gd Ref. 7.1, the difference is very obvious. Now I am reading Yggy.

That look like one happy Ember. Surrounded by great headphones, tubes and fed by the mighty Yggy!