I’m happy with the Sus, Elrog and many 6SN7 and 1578 in the Envy.
Moving to dual 6J5G (TS or Vissaeux ) has taken it up several notches. Frankly I didn’t think it was possible to get more clarity (we both have the Dave) but I was wrong!
Yes, certainly Riviera is surpassing ENVY in some particular fields of musical image but it does come from limitations of ANY 300B tube vs transisror. On The contrary-one can say ENVY surpasses transistor- hybrid amps in terms of delicacy, musicality, true to The real , live music and so forth. You need to undersatnd that these are top of The linę amps with some advantages and disadvantages of technology used to execute its creator’s path. In my room they coexist pacefully
Yes, it's a 6H8C, so Russian equivalent to 6SN7. No promises on how it will sound though - could be great, could be terrible....only one way to find out.
They found the problem. There was a single bad solder joint on a heater current rectifier connection for the right 300B tube. It was intermittent (for them, repair by UPS handling), and they were only finally able to reproduce the problem today. They have fixed it, and will be running in the amp for 1-1.5 days, then ship it back. I hope to have it back by Friday, Kudos to the service staff at Upscale Audio for their persistence and kindness. They said that they have almost no problems with Feliks amps over the years, and that this was surprising to them, but they were happy to have found the problem.
They found the problem. There was a single bad solder joint on a heater current rectifier connection for the right 300B tube. It was intermittent (for them, repair by UPS handling), and they were only finally able to reproduce the problem today. They have fixed it, and will be running in the amp for 1-1.5 days, then ship it back. I hope to have it back by Friday, Kudos to the service staff at Upscale Audio for their persistence and kindness. They said that they have almost no problems with Feliks amps over the years, and that this was surprising to them, but they were happy to have found the problem.
Oh side note, doesn't seem USA is getting many Envy units. According to Headphones.com 1 unit coming in this month and 2 units coming in Dec. Looks like the Nov unit did arrive this week to Upscale. Hopefully that is mine. Mid Dec is ETA for my Walnut Standard unit.
So not sure if these 3 units are for Headphones.com and Upscale is getting more inventory as well? Either way doesn't seem a bunch of people are buying these units. High price tag in effect?
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