All ribbing and teasing aside, H1, can't imagine what you have been through. Must have been really bad and no fun. Very glad
that you got through it, okay.
My Elise...
Yes, listening to some acoustic "chamber" jazz with a lute, bass clarinet, acoustic bass, and some occasional soprano clarinet and oboe,
The illusion of being in the room with these fellows, is remarkable.
5998's and 'circa 1943' 6SN7W
All that crazy tube rolling we did, probably should have just stayed closer to "home".
Cheers...
Ah but, JV, such rolling is the only way to get a good handle on just how different tubes perform...along with how they interact with different gear, and is a wonderful way to learn the more subtle aspects of sound assessment lol!
I myself - along with many others - also found it extremely interesting, if occasionally somewhat controversial and contradictory...all part of this crazy hobby of ours methinks!!
In the process, a good few of us discovered tubes that - depending upon one's system and ears - gave us things that weren't delivered by the stock configuration tubes, and therefore made the sometimes 'mad' rolling a bit easier to justify...including the sometimes rather expensive ventures!! I know I'm not alone in being grateful for finding (different) tubes that finally bring out closer to the full potential of both my Euforia and upgraded peripherals, bearing in mind that everyone's system (and environment/ears) must, by definition, be unique.
But I'm only too glad to see folks who are more than happy with conventional tubes, of which there is indeed a wonderfully large choice...and which is precisely why I suggested this to Feliks-Audio in the first place (Elise)!
At least now, newcomers can profit from the experience of those of us who have, on occasions, been teetering on the brink of the abyss...even if in not such an 'exciting'(??!!) manner lol
...(but wouldn't have missed it for anything!!
)...CHEERS!...
Well, Hypnos1, the way I see it, usually you get CP as a child, so they say once you have them, you have the virus in your blood, and it may attack you later in life as Shingles, so figuring about 40 to 50 years spread between the diseases, you will be about 230 years old when you get shingles! Glad you are on the mend.
Thanks for those few kind words cf...I've no desire whatsoever to drag on until 100, let alone 230 lol!!!
But you've comforted me in the probability(?!) that at least I should now be spared the awful plight of Shingles later on...(but with my kind of luck, this darned virus of mine probably hasn't read the medical books!!!
).
ps. You've certainly tried a good few of the top flight 'conventional' tubes, which do indeed sing very nicely in Euforia, as well as Elise. And do come in handy when needing different requirements for pre-amp duties as opposed to headphones, for example...ENJOY!!!...