I have a pair of the IRIS headphones from their Indiegogo campaign, and they do indeed have excellent isolation even with glasses--better than my Oppo PM-3 headphones, which have good isolation. I tried them out against my Jabra 85H with ANC engaged and had similar results in blocking most...

I adore the combo of the HE560 v3 and my Lyr 2 hybrid. I expect the Lyr 3 would give similar results, though I haven't tried it.

How are these with classical? Symphonic, chamber, piano, vocal, opera?

True story. I return to my D-getter Heerlen Bugle Boys every now and again, and I've reached the conclusion I could have stopped there and saved myself a lot of money and not been appreciably worse off.

Not in my experience. The Lyr2 that I use is about half that power (6W/32 ohms), and the HE-560 sounds glorious through it. Not overly bright (like most Beyer headphones tend to be).

Yes my last transaction with him he tried to palm off a Sylvania as a Tung Sol; when I complained and he agreed to exchange I got another Sylvania. His website is a fun read, but never again. The Bugle Boy talk is making me think of putting my 1958s in to replace the 7316s finally. I like the...

I hear you. I got the 7316 D Getters a couple months ago, and they haven't left my Lyr 2 since. They're going to take away my tube rolling license for overextended tube in socket violations. My 6C8Gs wonder where I went....

Consider the socket savers a permanent addition to your rig. Taking them out only increases the wear on the sockets which is what you’re trying to avoid. And on the Lyr 2, the additional height boost makes it a lot easier to extract tubes.

The 7316s sound much better with the Focal Clears; in fact they make the rather disappointing Clears sound better than they ever have.

Finally got around to trying the Amperex 7316 1959 D getters. With the 6XX I was decidedly unimpressed, especially coming off the Valvo PWs. I’ll have to try them again with different headphones but if they still sound drab and dull they’re going back on the market.

USPS tells me my 7316s from Nova Scotia have arrived so I guess I have plans for this evening.

I get that "near perfection...as close to 'being there' as I've heard on headphones." using them in Lyr 2 with HE-560s. Listened to Turandot (Leinsdorf, Nilsson) and it was like sitting in the sixth row at the opera. Detail, soundstage, subtleties galore.

Hi guys, miss me? :sunglasses: Been super busy and didn’t have any money to blow on tubes anyway so didn’t have a chance to check in for a while. But whoa, 150 pages to catch up on? You’ve been busy too! Glad to see that in my absence many of you have discovered the glories of the Telefunken...

The GE 5670 triple micas actually sound pretty good with the super dark T1s. Probably too bright for anything else.

Had a weird experience listening on my T1 with my Ken-Rad 12AX7s. After a couple hours the sound got softer and softer till I had to put the Lyr 2 on high gain full volume. I tried again the other day with some cheap GE 5670s (just in case the Lyr was about to go haywire) and it sounded fine...