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the elise is one inch wider than my darkvoice.....
one of my gears will go over the cliff if she bunks in
one of my gears will go over the cliff if she bunks in
I live in the UK and luckily never got taxed due to me requesting them to value the item and ship it at a price low enough not to be taxed by customs. And on top of that the shipping was free which is crazy seen as the amp weighs around 10kg. And the $570 price was because it was on offer at the time but seems like that has ended now. A steal in my opinion considering how amazing this amp is; even for $659 I would say it is a bargain .
Well, there is no boutique parts (cables, antivibration pads, granite slabs etc...) that could bring as big sound quality improvement to some audio gear than simple good solid engineering.
Hey H1, I am sure you are enjoying her as she gets better and betterDo you think you can comment on resolution and bass as compared to LD IVSE, using the same tubes of course?
the elise is one inch wider than my darkvoice.....
one of my gears will go over the cliff if she bunks in
While you are waiting for more news on the Elise prototype, you could read this interesting abstract about the 6AS7G power tube in hifi amps: http://www.atma-sphere.com/Resources/The_6AS7G.php
Hi again A11...Have sneaked away for a couple of minutes!
VERY interesting...not to mention encouraging. They too seem to hold the Russian version in fairly high esteem, and I must admit I am already very impressed with them....so how on Earth can I go to bed without further checking? - I wouldn't be able to sleep, lol!..I shall just have to pop in the GECs for a quickie before bed...(and perhaps the PsVane CV181T-IIs to partner....and perhaps?....oh dear...).
As for later impressions...what a difference another 12 hours can make...my previous remarks about finer detail in the upper range I am having to retract already. UNBELIEVABLE. It is in fact now present, and along with better transient response kicking in, the air and space I have come to love is MUCH more apparent. And with that deep bass getting even tighter, I am almost (?!) lost for words. How these modestly priced tubes can be delivering such a sound is rather astounding...especially after the kinds of MUCH more expensive tubes we have been using this past year and more in our LD rolling! I never imagined the Feliks guys could come up with something that would perform in this way at anywhere near this price point...and the burn-in (not to mention rolling!) has only just started.
DV336se...one 6as7...one 6sn7,
Doubling up will triple up the bassblast on my LCD2!?
I defintely know the bass on the k812 sounded perforated on dv336
When playing copland's Fanfare to the Common Man by Eiji Oue.
It is important to remember that your Little Dot was never designed to run a pair of 6AS7s. Yes, you managed to fit them in with an external heater power supply, but still they are starved for current. In a sense, one might say the LD runs them rather gently. But in an amp that was designed from the ground up to run them hard, even cheap 6AS7s really shine. And I imagine your GECs will be even more astounding, again, in a circuit designed and optimized to run these tubes.
Enjoy
Colin congratulation it sounds like you are really enjoying your Elise, tube rolling is a curse I know all to well having now curbed the habit I have been finding it hard to let go of some of my own stock pile that's slowly built up. I still get a excited when a new find arrives especially if it is from the 1940's or 50's its just a bit mind bending to think they have survived for 60-70 years at all let alone sound amazing. Unwrapping a old tube from its original packaging followed by the anticipation of whether it will work let alone sound any good is a experience to savour.
I wonder if you might pass on a comment or two when you get round to trying your Melz 6H8C I have a love hate relation ship with my one. It took a while to find a good tube to match with it and sounds at its best when listening to my vinyl set up.
How are finding the treble on the Elise with your T1's?
Cheers
Jamie
It is important to remember that your Little Dot was never designed to run a pair of 6AS7s. Yes, you managed to fit them in with an external heater power supply, but still they are starved for current. In a sense, one might say the LD runs them rather gently. But in an amp that was designed from the ground up to run them hard, even cheap 6AS7s really shine. And I imagine your GECs will be even more astounding, again, in a circuit designed and optimized to run these tubes.
Enjoy
I seriously doubt that there would be any difference with one or two 6SN7s. But I am inclined to think that two 6AS7s are better than one.
Yes sir ¡¡ this is what I think about it. I am in no way a tube expert, but 30 years into the audio hobby teachs you one or two things. First, in general terms power supplies are extremely important if you want sound quality. The consensus is that the "ultimate" level with the LDMKIII amps require some mods to fit external power supplies, so you can feed 2.5 amps to each or 6080 family power tubes. I never tried this mod myself, but if the people here says that this is the best, then it is. You put 6.5 volts and 2.5 amperes into each tube, all by the book, and gibosi says it better than me: "still, they are starved for current". I do not know the technical reasons, but if the power supply is capable of high current, far above what is required, and also have somo other virtues, then we have "headroom", and don't ask me why, but the component will sound a lot better: relaxed, effortless, open, unstrained...
The fact that the Elise sounds so good with "cheap" russian tubes is even more relevant, and I read that the (real) Svetlana Winged "C" 6AS7G, St. Petersburg Factory old stock, is a terrific tube.
At first glimpse in the Elise, we have a serious power transformer. I did my homework and some Feliks-Audio amplifiers feature Ogonowsky transformers, custom- wound hand made, super nice trafos made in a small factory in Poland by Mr. Ogonowsky, an innovator and kind of a "Guru"in Poland for his transformers. To Feliks Audio: I want this one in the Elise , non negotiable. I really hope that the Elise have one of these babies, and not an OEM thing. Will sign up for one at once....
More detailed impressions, please!!
On it, R...illness in the house has impeded progress somewhat I'm afraid, but am now about to put the Russians back in and try a few different tracks to get a better idea...timing of the arrival couldn't have been worse, I fear...(I too am champing at the bit, lol!!)...
Hope its nothing serious! Then i shall not place unduly pressure on you further
Hi H1, hoping you and / or your wife will be recovering well.
As a suggestion for the Elise thread, you could edit the first post to update the interested reader either with your pictures, video, impressions or bullet points with links to the respective posts. This would have been also helpful in the LDTAVTRG thread but not possible due to Dept_of_Alchemy's inactivity.