If I hang my Elise from the ceiling with ropes... ...we will all know I must have finally lost my marbles

No tricks - Your memory was right on! I’ve just been lurking quietly for the last few months trying to keep up with life whilst also reading about all the EL39 adventures and stuff. I’m still alternating quad EL38s vs 38s as powers and EL11s as drivers. Both setups (and stock tubes too, to a...

I’m one of those folks! I love the combo of my Elex with my Elise with both stock tubes and more exotic ones as well. Elise also runs my 32 Ohm Meze 99 Classics very well, although I usually listen with the Elex. This amp definitely seems to defy the conventional wisdom that lower-impedance...

I’ll speak up as a very happy Elise owner with CD/Hi-res files through a Schiit Yggdrasil and Focal Elex headphones. I haven’t heard Euforia, but I’m so happy with my Elise that I don’t feel like I need to upgrade, especially on my limited musician’s income. If money were no object, I’d of...

Welcome aboard @triggsviola - I’m a former Orange County person myself. That’s a lovely rig you’ve put together! I too am using an Yggdrasil A2 to drive a Feliks headamp into Focal headphones. Certainly seems to be a marvelous synergistic combination to my ears, and you’ve got the flagship...

I wonder if they actually meant to type $40.00 :darthsmile:

Thank you @hypnos1 and @mordy for your helpful replies - this gives me a very good philosophical summary of the pioneer spirit that has helped lead us to some of these lovely discoveries that we are already enjoying. I do have an infrared thermometer here that I’ve been using on the big tube amp...

Hello all - I have a “big” question and I’m hoping to tap into the experience and knowledge of the remarkable contributors to this thread to see if I might get some help with a few remedial tube rolling fundamentals questions. Some background: With no previous electronics experience to speak...

I’ll be interested to hear of your impressions of the smaller power conditioner, Octavian. I’ve been considering power conditioning options myself but am going to need to wait a while for my finances to recover from last year’s amp shopping :upside_down:

Hi Johnny! Part of what got me interested in Elise/Euforia in the first place was the ability to have a high-quality tube headphone amp and good simple preamp all in one. I also was originally seriously considering the Jolida amps and pre-amps as a possible path, but ultimately I was most drawn...

Before purchasing my gear, I too was concerned about the impedance of the Focals, until I saw the 6moons review of the 2018 Euforia - according to the author, Euforia was being used to demo Focal’s Elear and Utopia headphones at a CanJam in London last year. The combination of the Feliks amp...

I haven’t tried any of the metal envelope tubes - I’ve been too enamored of the glowing glass bottles to venture into that territory yet - but I know you and others have had good results with them and I may have to try some just out of curiosity at some point. In the meantime, I’m still very...

I am indeed looking forward to my return to headphones, although it will be a few days yet as I’ve a busy weekend. Fortunately no one in my house objects to speaker listening unless it’s late at night, but with my performance schedule, much of my listening does happen after the gigs are done...

I am indeed having a total blast! I’ve always loved seeing radios from the 30s and 40s. Reminds me of what much grandparents had in their house when I was a kid - and I’m a relative youngster, having been born in 1975. Still I love the aesthetics and sounds of many decades from before I was...

Hi Scutey, I’ve really been liking the sound of Elise via the Elex headphones. They seem to synergize very well to my ear. Bear in mind that I’m relatively new to the head-fi world and most of my listening has been via speakers and as a live acoustic musician, but I’ve been very impressed with...

In my setup they certainly have gained sparkle as they’ve been running in. For me, the change in the bass seemed more dramatic, but my circumstances may have influenced that impression - my initial several hours of listening with the EL38 quad didn’t seem overly dark or muffled via Focal Elex...

I can lend my voice to the encouragement for giving the EL38 quad a bit of time for the bass to settle in. I was initially overwhelmed by the bass with 4 of them in Elise, and now that I’m about 100 hours in the bass has tightened up beautifully and is continuing to refine itself. I’m very...

Thank you for the encouraging words! My decision to purchase my Elise was in large part due to your posts documenting your journey with Elise and Euforia and a plethora of tubes. I haven’t yet tried the 2xEL32 with 2xEl38 combo yet - perhaps I will at some point just for kicks, but first I’ll...

My thanks to everyone for making me feel so welcome! :smile_phones: It was good timing for me to have said hello - just in time for my EL38 adapters to arrive in yesterday’s mail. I have a quad of yellow label Mullards that I started warming up last night and got in a bit of listening before...

Hello all! I’ve been reading this thread and the Elise thread as well for a year or so now as I was saving my pennies for an amp (I even went through and read all the posts from the beginning of both threads). It seems like it was past time to actually register for the forum and say hello, and...