[UntilThen]

Wow attmci and mordy, you've linked some really cheap power tubes. Cheap tubes but the shipping double the price of the tube to be send to me !!!

I've been trying to get hold of a pair of Tung Sol 6080 though.... just can't see it.

 

[UntilThen]

Suuup, may I entice you back into head-fi again.

May I entice you with these items:-

Yggdrasil, Euforia, La Figaro 339, HD800. These items goes to make up my main listening rig now and they are miles ahead of what I had before.... which is NAD d1050, Elise, T1.

Head-fi has bitten deep but I'm very satisfied with what I hear now...... guess I said that a year ago too.

 

[UntilThen]

I put on the T1 now.... after almost one month since I last use it. Wow... I had almost forgotten the tone that I once was so familiar with. It is still fun and enjoyable but not as much as the HD800 that I got used to and love now. Actually I use my HD800 and HD650 more now. T1 has been relegated to a distant 3rd. Don't know why....

As I say, T1 is still a premium sounding tone. Wow the sweet melodies enveloping my ears now are just so ...... N I C E.

I am glad I have these 3 headphones. Perfect with my OTL amps and gear.

 

[UntilThen]

Yggy's been left on for 1 month and 8 days now. It's a transformed tone now from day 1.

Sound is mature, enveloping, fleshed out, denser, individual notes have muscles now, vocals are projected to my ears so life like. Those female singers are singing right into my ears. So intimate. Any closer I would feel their lips touching my ears. Scary thought.

I know this sound stupid but Yggy sounds like my vinyl now except with details galore and pitch black background.

The day that Yggy is taken away from me, would be a sad, sad day..... that is not going to happen. Nope.

Oh.... guess I should sell the NAD d1050 now.... the box is still new.

 

[angpsi]

Haven't had the chance to listen to anything else except the HD600 but after reading miles of reports on head gear I feel I'm happily predisposed to the leaner of the Sennheiser sound signature. Once I almost jumped on a pair of T1, but after the GEC 6080 / Sylvania 6an7w (not to mention all my other recent additions which al gave me very satisfying sounds) I don't think I want to stray too far off the sound signature.
Perhaps then my next level game will be to follow in your footsteps UT, and find my way to a bargain set of Yggy etc. That, provided I take care of all my other financial obligations or risk divorce!

 

[angpsi]

Any opinions on the GEC 6070WA? Never heard anything about them and I just stumbled on to this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/172732300985

 

[UntilThen]

Ok.... I am going to be shot and assassinated for saying this but I will say it just this once. My wife thinks that I am done buying anymore amps.... so do I ...... for now.

However, my altered ego tells me that a year from now, I'll place my order for this.....



SORRY for going off topic again.... just pretend you didn't see this.

 

[UntilThen]

Any opinions on the GEC 6070WA? Never heard anything about them and I just stumbled on to this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/172732300985

What???? !!!! I have never ever dever heard of 6070WA in all of my life.

That looks exactly like the GEC 6080 that I have. Is this a trick question?

 

[UntilThen]

Angelo, you're not supposed to have seen that blue amp with 2A3 tubes.... so it's not possible for you to like it. By the way, it was you increasing my 'like' count. I thought something's wrong with my 'like' counter.

Now you know why I say 'I'm done buying tubes...' because those 2A3 will bankrupt me. If I get one of each brand that is....

 

[Suuup]

Interesting. I check my ebay purchase exactly a year ago. Since then I've purchased these tubes:-

Bendix 6080wb
RCA 6080
Lots of EL11, EL12, EL12N
EF80, EF86 for my La Figaro 339 ---- which means I bought the LF339 2nd hand at around this time
Some LPs, vinyl accessories ----- this was the time I got really keen on LPs
Tung Sol 6sn7gtb 1960s black base
Sylvania 6sn7wgt - I bought a 2nd to pair with the only 6sn7wgt that I bought at the start of Elise.
RCA 6as7g
Hitachi 6sn7gtb
Raytheon 6sn7gt vt231 black glass
GEC 6080
GEC 6as7g

So looking back a year ago, those were some significant purchases. Some very important tubes, especially power tubes. Important purchases I'd say.

Oh wow, UT has almost 8000 posts -- I remember back when he had <1000 Good times, I miss talking to ya'll.

 

[UntilThen]

Perhaps then my next level game will be to follow in your footsteps UT, and find my way to a bargain set of Yggy etc. That, provided I take care of all my other financial obligations or risk divorce!

Angelo, if you follow my footsteps, the Sydney Opera House will be your listening room and the Harbour Bridge will be your bridge over troubled waters. That is if you buy the Yggy and HD800 with Draug V2 cable. Whilst I can guarantee you will be really happy with this setup, I can't on the other hand, guarantee your continued marital bliss. You may need a new wife who is as keen on head-fi and spend more on it than you.

 

[UntilThen]

Oh wow, UT has almost 8000 posts -- I remember back when he had <1000 Good times, I miss talking to ya'll.

Suuup you know why I'm almost 8000 posts right? That's because you weren't helping me with the post count !!! Remember there were just 2 of us back then that one Autumn grey and cloudy day....

 

[UntilThen]

I don't think I want to stray too far off the sound signature.

Hello? I like the Senn's sound too but I think I can entice you to a new sound signature. It's call Focal Utopia. This headphone and it's sound will change you. Literally. Figuratively and fortune nate ly.

Some headphones are good but the Utopia is great.

 

[UntilThen]

I'm not sure why I kept this for so long. Most of my vintage stuff have disappeared, like my Mitsubishi sound system.

However I still have this Sony Walkman portable CD player. It is still like NEW and in good playing condition. It even have a portable 'AAA' battery capsule in addition to AC power.

 

[mordy]

So here is my suggestion for the budget conscious Feliks Elise/Euforia owner - if you are lucky the four tubes will cost around $28, and these are guaranteed to please: A relaxed, non-fatiguing musical presentation; not the most detailed and analytical, but very sweet and pleasing.

Drivers: Foton 6H8C for $7.94/pair including shipping
Powers: RCA 6AS7G for around $20/pair including shipping if you shop carefully and have a little patience.

In addition, you can impress your neighbors with the nice tube glow: