eric343
Member of the Trade: Audiogeek: The "E" in META42
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*background announcher*
Live, from the studios of HNN* in Bozeman Montana, we bring you the finest news availible this side of the ski lift...
*anchor-guy*(jude?) Good evening ladies and gentlefish. We've just recieved reports from our reporters in the field of a gathering in Kent, Washington of tube audio enthusiasts, apparently centering around a figure known as "Doc Bottlehead." I take you now to our reporter on the scene.
*me* Thanks, Jude. The Bottlehead meeting, as it's now known, was attended by well over thirty people, who in a bizarre twist on the "potluck" tradition brought various tubed amplifiers and speakers to the house behind me. Among these amplifers were a unique pair of integrated monoblocks (monoblock preamp *and* power amp!) that ran 30B tubes as 300Bs and used a beautiful chassis manufactured by the chassis-design champion of last year's Valve State of the Art Conference and a prototype of the Bottlehead Seduction headphone amplifier. The headphone amplifier was set up in the kitchen, next to an MG Head (Rayethon 5751/Ei Yugo EL84), ETA42, and an unnamed, unknown tube amplifier capable of accepting two different driver tubes.
Attendees were able to listen to the headphone amplifiers using either Etymotic 4Ses, two pairs of HD600s (Clou Blues both of 'em), and a set of Audio Technica W100s currently on loan. To my ears the Bottlehead Seduction was far and away the winner; making the MG Head sound weak and laid-back in comparison. Fans of tube-audio DIY will rejoice when they build this kit, it has incredible bass kick, fantastic and clear treble, and fantastic mids. In fact, Jude, that was one of the best tube headphone amplifiers I've heard yet.
Doc Bottlehead was there also, listening to the other amplifiers and expounding at length in the kitchen (next to his Seduction) on topics ranging from vibration absorption to green LEDs mounted in a CD player transport mechanism. (apparently they do the same thing as Auric Illuminator)
*anchor cuts in*
Well, thanks for the report, but I'm going to have to cut you off there because we just got a report that mousepads are great at vibration absorption, and I want to go try it out right now.
* Headphone News Network
*background announcher*
Live, from the studios of HNN* in Bozeman Montana, we bring you the finest news availible this side of the ski lift...
*anchor-guy*(jude?) Good evening ladies and gentlefish. We've just recieved reports from our reporters in the field of a gathering in Kent, Washington of tube audio enthusiasts, apparently centering around a figure known as "Doc Bottlehead." I take you now to our reporter on the scene.
*me* Thanks, Jude. The Bottlehead meeting, as it's now known, was attended by well over thirty people, who in a bizarre twist on the "potluck" tradition brought various tubed amplifiers and speakers to the house behind me. Among these amplifers were a unique pair of integrated monoblocks (monoblock preamp *and* power amp!) that ran 30B tubes as 300Bs and used a beautiful chassis manufactured by the chassis-design champion of last year's Valve State of the Art Conference and a prototype of the Bottlehead Seduction headphone amplifier. The headphone amplifier was set up in the kitchen, next to an MG Head (Rayethon 5751/Ei Yugo EL84), ETA42, and an unnamed, unknown tube amplifier capable of accepting two different driver tubes.
Attendees were able to listen to the headphone amplifiers using either Etymotic 4Ses, two pairs of HD600s (Clou Blues both of 'em), and a set of Audio Technica W100s currently on loan. To my ears the Bottlehead Seduction was far and away the winner; making the MG Head sound weak and laid-back in comparison. Fans of tube-audio DIY will rejoice when they build this kit, it has incredible bass kick, fantastic and clear treble, and fantastic mids. In fact, Jude, that was one of the best tube headphone amplifiers I've heard yet.
Doc Bottlehead was there also, listening to the other amplifiers and expounding at length in the kitchen (next to his Seduction) on topics ranging from vibration absorption to green LEDs mounted in a CD player transport mechanism. (apparently they do the same thing as Auric Illuminator)
*anchor cuts in*
Well, thanks for the report, but I'm going to have to cut you off there because we just got a report that mousepads are great at vibration absorption, and I want to go try it out right now.
* Headphone News Network