8600. Elrog 300B and telefuken signal tubes. Sounds like angels dancing in my ears.

I run the HE1000se from the speaker taps using a custom cable - you’ll either want to do that or mod the headphone jack output resistors to give a lower output impedance. The volume can be a little hot so you’ll likely want to attenuate that with a preamp, digital volume on a dac or just be...

Realise this might have already been asked, apologies if it has, my search-fu is lacking. Is scan music the only way to for new albums to show up? I buy a new album once or twice a month and it would be ideal if I could just add that album to the index, rather than scanning the entire card...

Bought on a whim but didn't end up using these much - that said they do sound great and are a solid intro to electo-stats. I've put maybe a couple of hours on them at most and they were in similar state when I got them. Some accessories were still wrapped. Comes with all original accessories...

awesome, weekend ticket booked, see you all there!

Sold on eBay for £600

Price drop £850 -> £750. I really am open to offers.

Price drop £950 -> £850.

I've decided it's finally time to part ways with my beloved A&K SP1000M. Since the start of lockdown I've hardly used it, relying on my desktop setup - prior to that used most days for the best part of a year or two. This player sounds absolutely fantastic, using two of the classic AK AK4497EQ...

Ha… ok, that explains Apple Music not working. I thought it was an android versioning issue. That’s a relief at least. I’m sure this will eventually get fixed but it sucks having to choose between Roon and decent sound without extra steps.

I tried a factory reset, followed by installing 1.52 (from file), then a factory reset, then an upgrade to 1.655 over wifi. I'm still getting the muffled sound on 1.66 unless I switch the DAC filter. I've decided to just stick with 1.52 for now which kinda sucks. @JasonNYC - I dunno if it'd...

Nice one. Thank you very much!

I’ve got a question about connected the SP1000M to an iPad Pro. I can get it working with the somewhat large AV Connection Dongle (the one with HDMI, USB-A and Thunderbolt), but does anyone know of a smaller dongle that will work (for example the apple usb-c to usb-a connector?). I’ve tried an...

I’ll try the factory reset. I’m normally not too fussy but this particular bug is SO very noticeable to me that it’s genuinely affecting my enjoyment. edit: sadly this did not work. The effect is not subtle. I tested with VE Monks and the sound quality change is obviously apparent even with them.

The SEX set to 4ohms was supreme with the original Aeon closed... I guess that's not what you asked directly but I haven't heard them sound even remotely as enjoyable on another amp - I think they really need more juice than most people give them.

Are the LED’s wired correctly? Positive / Negative the right way around. They should be on the tube side of the board inside the tube sockets. A picture of the board may help.

Looks like you did a great job! you can tube the tonality quite a bit by adjusting the bias point of the NuTube - more or less harmonic distortion. So airy to neutral to a warm hug. The MUSE01 is def the better of the two for me. This amp can also be greatly improved with a potentiometer...

There's been no mention of internal changes, but the R is discontinued and the S is the new limited run. The big news is the newly designed Lundahl transformers which are available as an upgrade, and I would suggest they are all but mandatory.

Another happy Vérité Closed customer checking in. I've been listing to these all day and night for about a week and have been enjoying every minute. They scale beautifully - most of my listening's been on a Crack but I switched over the the Elekit TU-8600 and the detail and holographic...

yup - exactly this. They are different sizes. It may not look that way in photos but they are.

They do reverse polarity but it’s not a problem unless you are one of the (un)lucky few that can hear the difference. I can’t. It’s also not too hard to re-solder the headphone jack on a cable and reverse the polarity there. Also note the sennheiser plugs are too long to fit snuggly, but they...

Due to the LID tech they’re basically impervious to the output impedance of an amp which removes the need to pair them for a specific sound signature. That said they’re also a super detailed listen and so very revealing of the source. With that in mind you’re free to seek out whatever your...

Its a DIY kit. Really fun build - the instructions are excellent. It looks like there’s a new version out called the TU-8800, Victor at https://www.vkmusic.ca sells them - maybe he offers a build service or can put you in touch with someone.

If you’re willing to get your hands dirty or can find someone to build you one the Elekit TU-8600R is an absolutely dynamite pairing with the LCD-3F.

Thumbs up on both counts - no etch or grain. I didn’t make any notes about the stage - the tracks I listened too weren’t great at showing this off. I didn’t note anything unnaturally wide. Hopefully I’ll get some more time with them soon.