Feliks Audio Elise Impressions Thread – a New Start (please read first post for summary)

[connieflyer]

For the "lucky" ones

 
 
 
 

 

[UntilThen]

I love Alison Krauss. Great voice.

 

[connieflyer]

If you like
Alison KRAUSE .This is a track off their dvd In the tracking room. Thiswas recordeds live, the recording values and videos are great.
 
all the music seems effortlwess singing6  ONe of the best recorded albums I have. This youotube is ok but limited sound tha album has such rich tones amazing.

 

[RedBull]

Great song CF!
 
Listening using Samsung earbud from my laptop sounds great, makes me wonder why we have to spend mega bucks just to get 10% improvement 

 
 
Is she wearing Sony?

 

[mordy]

Finally snagged the 7236 tube at a good price. The tubes I got were made in Dec 1958 by Tung Sol and were bought by IBM for use in computers. Listening to them with the EL3N as drivers.
 
This is a great sounding tube. First impression is a well defined bass, delicate and very clear presentation, a little laid back.
 
IMHO when people say ss like, they just mean that it is very clear with well defined bass, not that it doesn't sound tubey.
 
I use the Elise as a preamp together with a 110W ss integrated amp. The Elise is inserted in an equalizer loop (no equalizer involved). With a slider I can switch the Elise in and out instantly. As soon as I switch it out the music loses a lot of vividness and life. No way the 7236 is solid state like!
 
Here are the new additions in action:
 

 
Looks like IBM took these tubes seriously:
 

 
 
One area where tubes sometimes lag behind solid state is in speed. Certain tubes, although beautiful sounding, may not be able to keep up with very rapid drumming as an example. The sound may be slurred a little.
 
Badas showed me an informal speed test, where you can check how your tubes perform in this aspect. The 30 sec introduction to this recording has some very rapid drum beats. One of my favorite tube combinations cannot keep up with it, but these 7236 tubes acquit themselves nicely - the rapid beats starting at around 10 sec are clearly delineated and not slurred:

 
Have fun!

 

[UntilThen]

Well done Mordy. Those 7236 looks exactly like the pair I sold to Pct with that IBM label at the bottom.

You got it right with the ss sound.
Clean and defined and slightly tubey. Another plus it runs cooler than 6AS7.

So what is the good price?

 

[UntilThen]

Looks like I need to do a review of EL3N with 7236.

Looks like a Cheetah and moves like a Gazelle and a pounding of a Gorilla.

 

[DavidA]

Did anyone notice that in the Alison Krauss video that @connieflyer posted she has the headphones on backwards?
 
But I love the album

 

[DavidA]

  Great song CF!
 
Listening using Samsung earbud from my laptop sounds great, makes me wonder why we have to spend mega bucks just to get 10% improvement 

 
 
Is she wearing Sony?

They look like MDR-V600 studio monitor

 

[RedBull]

  Did anyone notice that in the Alison Krauss video that @connieflyer posted she has the headphones on backwards?
 

 
Good observation, perhaps it just for show, no sound also.

 

[connieflyer]

Well, look at us,page 5 already,congrats folks.

 

[RedBull]

With the rate of us posting here, this is gonna be 100 in no time,

 

[pctazhp]

  Watching the crowd and thiking wow look at all the old coddgers!  Then I realized half of them were younger than me!  They sound pretty good, have the beat down real nice.  Here is another old jewel..
 

I noticed the same thing, CF. I should have added another item to the thread guidelines: "Old Geezers reminding each other of all the benefits of growing old is encouraged above all" 

 
Glad you like the group and thanks for the additional videos.I really love Hank Williams' Jambalya. Lots of great versions on YouTube.

 

[pctazhp]

Looks like I need to do a review of EL3N with 7236.

Looks like a Cheetah and moves like a Gazelle and a pounding of a Gorilla.

Because you are my leader and I just follow you blindly, you have broken my 6-day record of no tube rolling. This morning I popped in my EL3Ns to pair with your - I mean my -7236s. I don't know why, but just about everything seems to sound better and better with my Elise. With respect to the EL3Ns, maybe there really is something to the 400-hour break in period.

 

[pctazhp]

@mordy. I hope your IBM re-labeled 7236s sound as great as the pair I bought from @UntilThen.