number1sixerfan
Headphoneus Supremus
Just a note- I'd carefully consider whether you really need balanced. Balanced introduces the added expense and headaches involved in sourcing a matched quad of output tubes.
Going by feedback of other experienced users that owned and compared balanced vs single ended in the same Lampi DAC model, and according to Lukasz himself, only buy balanced if you absolutely need it, because it offers no sonic improvement over single-ended.
Really good point on the tube costs, and only thought about that recently. I don't really "need" balanced, just a preference I'm accustomed to. Typically it barely has a bearing on price and availability, compared to that being quite a bit different w/Lampi.
I actually heard back from the Poland store already. They do have quite a bit available, several being balanced, although right now it's not a hard requirement.
I think it's kept up to date FWIW, I've seen items I know were traded in by friends appear within days.
It's pretty slim pickings at the moment, but it tends to be cyclic, the Horizon release put a lot of Pacifics on the list. And I would guess it predominantly populated based on people using the upgrade program.
Most of the rest shows up intermittently, I'd expect a small uptick in content because of Poseiden has started shipping.
This is true. The list seems old by the date on the site, but each piece of gear I asked about was on it, and some in addition to that. I don't want to jinx it, but I found two that I'm intrigued by. Both a bit out of my price range lol (hate this hobby haha). Still following up with them, but I do also really like the idea of buying directly from them, with the recent upgrades, testing before sending out, etc.