They should be included in the price now. Used to be a $500USD upgrade on. If you can get the machine without them, I guess you can use isoaccustic orea and pocket the difference.

Same here, volume start to increase after 3rd dot and doesn't completely mute at min.

Get a 250V 0.8A Slow blow. Something like this should work fine, if you want something fancy, go to 鴨記 or labkable and ask.

Manage to snatch one at the old price.. hopefully it will arrive within the week... super hype... hope it pairs well with the dca stealth. Anyone try fuse rolling with the 23r? I need to replace the fuse anyways because it is from a 110v region, might as well put something better in.

Great tubes, amazing seller!! Pretty much my best tube buying experience ever!

The hiss very possibly comes form the 12bh7. I had pretty bad hiss on my unit, it went away completely after replacing the 12bh7 with tung-sol nos ones. The flash you saw when the tube turns on is call the heater flash. It doesn’t affect the performance of the tube during normal operation, but...

Totally, those stock tubes are really a hinderance to the wonderful machine below. If you like the Mullard sound, you may want to hunt for a pair of their 1950s square getter version from the Mitcham factory. My currently favourite is a pair of Marconi branded B309 from Mullard Blackburn. I...

The oem tubes are Russian.

I have the same thing happen to me. When I connect my EE Odin to the mha200, the right side has some electrical crackle noise, the left side has a faint "laser gun" type noise when the music is very faint or silent(Can't hear it with my maze elite thou). The problem completely went away after...

Quote: Not sure, may be the wizard can weight in on that 

This drop in my inbox today .  UPS please get your butt moving.  

Reading this thread has made my wallet $2K lighter...  And the waiting game continues. 

That puzzle me a little when i place my order as well.  You just need to select the 4.Ai at the top of the page right below all the address stuff, and all the options related to the CIEMs will go away.

I was searching for info on ue900 the other day, saw the 4.Ai mentioned somewhere.  Search for 4.Ai and got here, ordered the 4.Ai within 1/2 hr of reading the reviews. Now, I am devouring every threads and reviews i can find on the 8.A and already made an appointment to get my ear mold.    ...