Yeah, and also its quality is overstated. It is good coffee, sure, but today's kopi luwak is animals in cages, eating and schitting coffee beans. There is vastly better coffee out there, you're missing out if you don't try it at least once in a while! I'm not into espresso, because I'm not rich...

It's totally a profitable move... They tried to enter a new market segment, and if they had not done what they did, which sure, was totally the best possible thing to do in their predicament, they would have ruined their reputation forever with a ton of people not interested in their digital...

Very sad about Robert, rip. One of the few individuals I've interacted with here that was as real as could be. Don't know much about him, but his presence will be missed.

You aren't the one that would have to open up RMAs with tape exploding the box though.

I think once 1 of the tubes has well and truly given out (you'll know), there will be no matching to them again, unless you buy a tester, calibrate it, and then go hunting for almost dead used tubes yourself. You're much better off just buying more matched pairs I think. And unless you think the...

I need to try this with noisy tubes I, am just too lazy. I have some 6F8G national unions that are incredible, and also incredibly noisy. I guess I'd have to find the ole solder iron too.... Many impediments to this path. But one day!

Nothing bad happens without tubes being matched, just one channel might be louder than another. They will fail at different times regardless of matched or not. It must be a mistake. 6H8C/6N8S are very close to 6SN7, but not the same. Nobody in the tube world refers to different tubes as being...

I agree, some people will buy it because of the price point, and not know how much adjustment you will need, also additional tools to really adjust fully. The other thing is about the no cart? If you added a dropdown box whose only option was "no cartridge" you'd probably save yourself quite a...

I think his point was that there are more expensive carts than 1k, much more expensive... He assumes it's wordplay, and not "don't spend more than 1k on a cart for Sol, it doesn't scale that high."

I have a kinu, look into them. Do you need automatic? If a manual is ok, you can get a kinu or lido for around 300-350, and it will compete with a lot of the high end stuff. Nothing beats the monolith, though for me, not making espresso, the kinu is probably nearly endgame.

We're all totally beating a dead horse, not sure why, but I agree totally. The idea that science knows all there is to know about running electricity through copper or silver wires is of course, bollocks. There are certainly people with better ears than others, but blind tests are the only thing...

I have to agree, save up for the good tubes. That said, I am not using my good tunes atm on a wa6, and the rca tubes I'm using are totally fine. I would go ahead and buy some ok nos tubes, then save up for whatever sounds like the best to you.

Thankful that there is a tad bit of reason in here concerning shipping. We live in such a consumerist culture, where for a few dollars, we expect, for a few paper dollars or 1s and 0s on a computer, to have something moved from one location to another, on time, with little regard for the...

Model citizen right here.

If you are going for great sound, out of the very best NOS tubes, I think schiit is a poor choice in the first place. It might be incredible, who knows, but there are some really great specialized tube amp builders out there, and I can't imagine schiit does it any better. I'm sure they do it...