The single input tube looks like a NOS General Electric 6SN7. Nice clean extended high end, good low end grunt. Good choice.

The best things in life are worth waiting for....

Me neither. The mid-range became smeared and suffered noticeably from a lack of definition. No bueno.

I associate proper timbre to mean a transducer that easily discerns the uniqueness in pitch and tone differences in varying instruments including voice while playing similar notes. My $.02

...and this is why I got immersed into this hobby over 40 years ago. Recordings are different from one another....often drastically different. I yearn to hear these differences. Poorly recorded, 2-dimensional efforts should sound like it, just as a beautifully crafted recording should soar...

Yup. The curse, if there is such a thing, of having a very revealing transducer is that the sonic characteristics of what comes before it will be spotlit, warts and all. Depending on how carefully you've assembled your system as a whole, will determine whether that particular headphone will be a...

'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' from that album is one of my all time favorites for wiping away the cares of the day, completely immersed in the music.

Try this album if you get a chance. The realism is unbelievable on the SR1's.

About 25-30% here. That's my sweet spot. Any further and I lose the fundamental of the instruments, much more closed than that, and the lower mid-range begins to get a little sloppy and less defined.

That, to me, is what it's all about right there.

Wadax Atlantis Reference?

I think Alek mentioned that he gained some new insight to an open-baffle design, but that he didn't yet know how to incorporate it, and that such a design is far off in the future. I read that to mean there is nothing being worked on currently.

^^^^^This in spades. I've never been to a meet the size of CanJam where I was able to make wholesale judgements on the sound of a headphone or anything upstream of it. If one goes, go with the idea that you'll meet new people with mutual interests, see and handle new product, and get some...

You do know that a good deal of what Srajan has been espousing over there in that preview, has been lifted verbatim from these very pages. That said, it's no secret that 300B-fronted amplifiers can be magical sounding pieces when designed properly. The only pair of ears that matter, though, are...

That's a great amp. I had an ATM-300R with a pair of WE 300B's in it. Wonderful music came from it.

I completely agree. While it's great that RAAL made available the TI-1b & c transformers for those that want to dip their toe in without committing to a dedicated amplifier, I personally would only use an interface if I had no other amplification options available to me. The less things in the...

Yup....best to stick tube electronics, especially amps, on the top of the rack and allow all that heat to dissipate up and away easily.

Exactly

You asked a question of the forum of whether or not the CA-1 will still be relevant in YOUR collection if you buy the Immanis. I merely responded that only the specific individual can truly answer that question. Nobody hears the same thing....nor has the same priorities. Some people own 50+...

That's an question only each individual can make for themselves. For myself, I only have one headphone I do critical listening on. It's my best headphone, and gets my closer to the realism of the event than my other headphone...which I use in a different part of my home, and even then, only to...

I'm always happy to see one over a potentiometer when better sound is the goal.

The beauty of the input tubes are that they can often make as marked a difference in the sound as an output tube. The NOS tubes Danny refers to can be quite expensive, but the nice thing is that they far outlast the output tube in longevity, and therefore, even the pricey ones are worthwhile to...

Danny would certainly know. He builds pre-amp's and the like. That's good to hear. Nothing beats a great sounding tube amp designed so the tubes that are barely loafing along. Lots of available headroom on tap.

Ouch....that's no good. It's been awhile since I ran them, but I fortunately didn't have any issues. Good to know that QC might be suffering from their factory these days.