mchuckp
100+ Head-Fier
The seller reached out. He asked me to clean the pins, put back in, and let them burn in and hour or two. If the noise doesn’t go away, he’ll refund me. Says 90% of the time this works. We’ll see. At least he’s a good seller.Tubes problem, sadly. It might goes away on its own, but most of the time - the static stays ... I have a pair of metal can 6cs7 with the same behavior - on a good day I could get through one track without much problem. If it's other tubes I'd advise cleaning the pins and play with them a bit, but the 5691 is supposedly very rugged, and you would be better finding a new pair I think.
Glad to see people trying the Hd800 with the amp. Love my OG HD800 on the Aegis too, very ethereal without butchering, err I mean toning down the treble/soundstage xD (yes I'm one of the nut case who prefer the og hd800 in its stock form). I really want to try some Grado (the new x series) and AKG (k812 and vintage K240 mostly) on mine but I can't find a pair locally to borrow yet.