[parbaked]

You can see from this front view how it is laid out with one pentode per channel in single ended configuration (SEP); two output transformers; and then the power section - transformer, rectifier tube and choke - in the rear.
The toggle between the output transformers switches between speakers and headphone.
 

 
MAD has a single driver tube > 2 x output tubes
SEX is triode (SET not SEP) and not tube rectified
 
She should be here by lunch time.

I will of course take better pics...after we're properly introduced...

 

[jaywillin]

with all my gear comings and goings here, i had almost forgotten that i ordered a vali,
it just got here a day early, this little sucker is powerful !

 

[markm1]

  Hey guys and gals.
 
I feel like I mention this all the time, but I have some fairly well-respected headphones, as can be seen in my signature.  But time after time, it's the 225is that I have on my ears, followed by the AD, iGrado, then the 5LE's.  My wife has the Sennheisers.
 
The thing is, none of my high-end cans give anywhere near the same visceral, tactile experience that the 225i's give me.  The AD's have some serious sub-bass, but I think it's at the expense of midrange and slam.
 
So my question is this- are there any 'high end' cans outside of Grado that give the same physical experience? With the 225i's, I feel the pluck of the guitar string, and feel the stick hit the drum head.  Not so much the other cans. Does any other brand of HP do this? Maybe the HD800?

Nice to hear as I have the 225i's as well. But they are my only HPs. I keep dropping money on other audio gear. Endlessly debating the RS1i and the HE500. But,  these cans do rock!

 

[ArmAndHammer]

OH YEAH!!! My Bushmills are out for delivery. Should be on my ears very soon. I'll post up initial impressions as soon as I can.

 

[imackler]

  OH YEAH!!! My Bushmills are out for delivery. Should be on my ears very soon. I'll post up initial impressions as soon as I can.

Super stoked to hear your impressions! 

 

[joseph69]

  with all my gear comings and goings here, i had almost forgotten that i ordered a vali,
it just got here a day early, this little sucker is powerful !

It's really hard to keep up you, LOL!!!
You can really be a bad (good) influence!
Congratulations on the Vali, enjoy!
As a matter of fact, I just put my Schiit M/M combo back on the desktop, I feel for me my 325's sound more my taste with this amp, rather than the LD. The LD may be a little to dark sounding for the 325's to me, where as the M/M is brighter, so the LD will be retired for a while.
 
 

  You can see from this front view how it is laid out with one pentode per channel in single ended configuration (SEP); two output transformers; and then the power section - transformer, rectifier tube and choke - in the rear.
The toggle between the output transformers switches between speakers and headphone.
 

 
MAD has a single driver tube > 2 x output tubes
SEX is triode (SET not SEP) and not tube rectified
 
She should be here by lunch time.

I will of course take better pics...after we're properly introduced...

You haven't even met her yet, and you showed us pictures of her naked last night!!!
Once again enjoy it and let us know how you like it, with both, headphones and speakers. Really nice looking!

 

[jaywillin]

It's really hard to keep up you, LOL!!!
You can really be a bad (good) influence!
Congratulations on the Vali, enjoy!
As a matter of fact, I just put my Schiit M/M combo back on the desktop, I feel for me my 325's sound more my taste with this amp, rather than the LD. The LD may be a little to dark sounding for the 325's to me, where as the M/M is brighter, so the LD will be retired for a while.


You haven't even met her yet, and you showed us pictures of her naked last night!!!
Once again enjoy it and let us know how you like it, with both, headphones and speakers. Really nice looking!

Not a serious buy really, a just for the hell of it, haven't had a chance to really listen to it, just about 20 minutes , its seriously powerful it seems

 

[parbaked]

  You haven't even met her yet, and you showed us pictures of her naked last night!!!

That was an upskirt, not a nudie! 

 

[joseph69]

  That was an upskirt, not a nudie! 

Even nicer!

 

[parbaked]

  Even nicer!

She sexted me first!

 

[jaywillin]

  She sexted me first!

that"s what they all say !! lol

 

[Jesterphile]

Sadly my Alessandro MS-Pros are not getting much use as I am spending more time with my speakers in my new house. They sound great but need a new home so I will be listing them in the FS section...

 

[stacker45]

  Trust me, I'd rather have the HP-1 + HPA-2, but the thought of buying another HP-1000 was too much!
That amp needs to be with an HP-1000.
Hoping I'll love this one-off tuber near as much...

 
I believe you, the HP1000 and HPA2, do make magic together.
And if I were in you shoes, I probably woul've done the same thing.

  Says the man with the good stuff...

 
I prefer tu use the term, different stuff, as I've said before, I think that the sweet spot is at about $500 - $600, after that, it' every headphones game.

 

[bbophead]

 

  Even nicer!

She sexted me first!

Congrats on the new babe.  Can you give us a ballpark figure on what she cost?  Roughly.

 

[parbaked]

His amps are not expensive = labor of love
I'm 2nd owner but I was told $485 new for this one and it is built like a tank with good parts.
He shut his website. and I understand he only works by phone now and pretty much just for friends/old customers.
His amps do come up on a-gon as his customers seem to have more than one.