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Anyway I did a photo shoot of my jewels as promised. The only power tubes not there are Svetlana 6h13c and RCA 6080. They are with my son and the La Figaro 339. You can see I kept the best to myself.

I think you can make out what they are.

 

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Sound is much nicer through the HD600 - bass like there's no tomorrow!

Bravo ! You have learn the art of OTT.

You are a natural.

 

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with the pair of Raytheon 6SN7s you sent

Ummm I did not send you Raytheon 6sn7. I send you a pair of Hitachi 6sn7gtb with the Raytheon boxes.

Btw Hitachi 6sn7gtb are the real deal. I gave you 2 and I still have 2 left. It's a lively tone.

 

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Here's my drivers. There are not many but what is there are good stuff. Personally hand picked by me.

Ross, you can have my power and driver tubes if you take me to durian plantation for a year and let me eat all the durians I want. Of course, we will go to Genting too and try our luck at the casino. I will stay at your place and eat nasi lemak every day.

 

[Rossliew]

Hahahaha talk about OTT..that would break my bank without even needing to buy your tubes ! Guess I'll retreat into my shell and live the life of a hermit with only my bifrost/Asgard/hd600 combo. Bye bye all!

 

[mordy]

That's interesting. I suppose both Elise and Euforia are burn in? Euforia's tone changes in the first 50 hours... at least.

However as I said, I respect others presentation. To my ears, Euforia has a wider soundstage, better micro dynamics and certainly a stronger bass. I think that's how @mordy hears it too.

Hi xDJ and UT,

Interesting that my impressions are the exact opposite of xDJ - could be tubes used and burn-in time, but we all respect different opinions. I have both the Elise and the Euforia and can plug in my headphones into either one while playing the same tune. With the identical tubes the Elise always sounds leaner to me, and the Euforia more fleshed out, but they are quite close in sound.
One thing I have learned, being a member for several years, first of the Little Dot threads and later of the Feliks threads, is to identify forum members that hear things the same way as I do. So when they recommend something I know that I can rely on their impressions, and I find this very helpful and useful.
Sometimes I wonder if a persons age has to do with how he hears things. Once my 20 something son was here and I played a track for him (an old 78rpm recording). He asked me why there is a hiss, but I could not hear it.....

 

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Haha yes @mordy I hear you. We both have the same impressions of Elise and Euforia. Elise definitely sounded leaner to me and that has nothing to do with age.

Nevertheless it's what some of them hears and that's fine with me. It's just an impression.

As we all know, both sounded good but Euforia is definitely a few leagues above Elise according to my ears.

 

[mordy]

Hi UT,

Only 22 driver tubes and only 22 power tubes?

Did anybody compare the Yggdrasil to the Hugo 2 yet?

 

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Hahahaha talk about OTT..that would break my bank without even needing to buy your tubes ! Guess I'll retreat into my shell and live the life of a hermit with only my bifrost/Asgard/hd600 combo. Bye bye all!

You know jolly well that you will come out of your shell pretty soon. Just think about what my power tubes will do in your Elise. Buy that and I can put a deposit on either a DNA Stratus or a Glenn EL3N amp. Then I have to wait one year while I survive on Yggy and Rggy and Euforia with stock tubes.

 

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Hi UT,

Only 22 driver tubes and only 22 power tubes?

Did anybody compare the Yggdrasil to the Hugo 2 yet?

Wow did you count 22? That is sick !!! My Elise is (was) number #22. What a coincidence !!!

Both Yggdrasil and Hugo 2 are at the top of the pile. You can't go wrong with either. It boils down to personal preference if you ask me.

 

[Rossliew]

You know jolly well that you will come out of your shell pretty soon. Just think about what my power tubes will do in your Elise. Buy that and I can put a deposit on either a DNA Stratus or a Glenn EL3N amp. Then I have to wait one year while I survive on Yggy and Rggy and Euforia with stock tubes.

Hahahaha! That means them little glowy glasses gonna cost a pretty penny or ten!

 

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Hahahaha! That means them little glowy glasses gonna cost a pretty penny or ten!

It ain't any little glowy glasses. These ones are vintage and will be more valuable than Bitcoins in 10 years time. In 20 years time, it will be worth more than the one billion dollars bank.

 

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Meanwhile Head-Fi can wait while I get myself to the badminton hall and execute Lee Chong Wei's smash.

 

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@mordy I'll tell you something interesting. For one week, I let my son have Elise while I took La Figaro 339 back home to listen. At the end of the week, I swap back the amps. Immediately my son told me that Elise sounded more warm and lush. La Figaro is tighter, tauter, wider soundstage and that solid bass weight that is infectious. Those were his words to me, listening with HE560.

I agree with that impression completely. Before I got La Figaro 339, I was under the impression that it is a very warm and lush tube amp but hearing for myself is important. This is with all manner of tubes that I roll in LF339. I use all my best tubes in it, including Gec 6as7g, Bendix 6080wb, Gec 6080 and Tung Sol 5998.

That is not to say one is better than the other to my ears. I am of the opinion that both are great sounding tube amps but with their own sonic signature. Very interesting indeed.

 

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One thing I have learned, being a member for several years, first of the Little Dot threads and later of the Feliks threads, is to identify forum members that hear things the same way as I do. So when they recommend something I know that I can rely on their impressions, and I find this very helpful and useful.

This is a basic but important thing to recognise.