[mordy]

@mordy that might be the spot for my long bike ride. I need the wind in my face, the sea spray splashing against me as I cruise at medium speed. When I come to a downhill stretch, I won't use the brakes. I will lean in prone position to accelerate faster and hope that there's no big stones that my tires might run over. If that happens, you will hear a plop in the lake.

No lake mate - it's the ocean at North Head. But plenty of long hills....

 

[UntilThen]

No lake mate - it's the ocean at North Head. But plenty of long hills....

I probably needed to ride across the oceans. I literally bought a new head-fi system within 2 months.

Now I'm on par with my spent on my car stereo systems 5 years ago. However I ought to be happy now. A tube amp and a ss amp and some nice headphones. The music reaching my ears are unreal now.

 

[Rossliew]

Soon the need to upgrade will rear its beautiful head once again

 

[UntilThen]

Soon the need to upgrade will rear its beautiful head once again

No no no I know myself. When I get to a certain point with my hobby, I just stopped.

However that BHSE and Stax for 65? Yeah why not. My children can spoil me then. I will not turn down a Stax system with Pink Panther. It's the most vivid pink panther ever to cross my mind.

 

[UntilThen]

Some things happen for a reason. Like this ad was shown to me today. Why? Why so close to my commit on an amp this Sunday?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Fully-Ba...Fi-Audio-Preamp-/252981603332?var=&rmvSB=true

I've never seen an attempt to copy a high end amp with total disregard for propriety rights, such as this.

 

[UntilThen]

Second sign is a call from my dealer that Ragnarok has just arrived today for me. All the way from US of A.

 

[canthearyou]

Some things happen for a reason. Like this ad was shown to me today. Why? Why so close to my commit on an amp this Sunday?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Fully-Ba...Fi-Audio-Preamp-/252981603332?var=&rmvSB=true

I've never seen an attempt to copy a high end amp with total disregard for propriety rights, such as this.

Let us know how it sounds. Lol

 

[UntilThen]

Let us know how it sounds. Lol

You don't want to know what 'Attack of the clones' sound like....

 

[Levanter]

Anyone tried the Dragon Inspire IHA-1 amp compared to any of Feliks amps?

 

[UntilThen]

Anyone tried the Dragon Inspire IHA-1 amp compared to any of Feliks amps?

I don't think anyone here has. Looks an attractive looking tube amp with transformer output. Reading this review by Amos quickly, I get the impression that it's doing to his Yggy as much as Euforia is doing to my Yggy.

I too felt that Euforia handled the dynamics and details of Yggy brilliantly.

http://headphone-earphone.reviews/2017/04/21/inspire-dennis-dragon-iha-1/

 

[UntilThen]

Tone between those 2 will be different. Euforia is an OTL amp. The Dragon uses a rectifier and 2 6sn7 drivers, with transformer output.

In the review, Amos says that the Dragon doesn't provide the music with warm through HD800 and HE-1000 V2. Says it sounds like marble.

Euforia / Elise on the other hand has a certain warm and lushness generally associated with OTL amps... generally... depends on manufacturer's voicing. Having said that I don't find Euforia or Elise to be particularly too warm and lush. There's a surprising quickness to FA's amps transients with a liquid smoothness.

 

[UntilThen]

So I spoke to Tom of A2A and he confirmed Ragnarok and Violectric v281 will be waiting for my presence at the store on Sunday. They even chose a special gold coin for me to toss to make the decision.

That's what I call customer service.

While all these excitements are happening, I also learn that a HiFi Show is held this weekend in Sydney. Ragnarok and Vidar possibly will be on exhibit driving some fancy speakers.

What timing ! As if I still have time for HIFI Show after buying the amp? Oh well but it's tempting to see what's new in the world of HiFi.....

 

[oatp1b1]

Thinking of pairing an Espressivo with Modi Multibit, driving a pair of HD600's. Thoughts on that combo would be very much appreciated.

 

[UntilThen]

Thinking of pairing an Espressivo with Modi Multibit, driving a pair of HD600's. Thoughts on that combo would be very much appreciated.

I will leave it to the resident Espressivo expert @osterwart to answer this.

 

[ostewart]

Thinking of pairing an Espressivo with Modi Multibit, driving a pair of HD600's. Thoughts on that combo would be very much appreciated.

I tried with the HD650 and the pairing was excellent (I'm not a huge fan of the HD650 so that is saying something, best pairing I've heard yet), so I cannot see why there would be issues with the HD600

What I like about the Feliks amps is that they have a touch of warmth without smearing the finer details, or taking away speed.

The stock espressivo tubes are actually quite flat sounding, so changing the drivers can change the sound quite a bit for not a lot of money