Ripper2860
Headphoneus Supremus
It wouldn't have been so bad if you hadn't posted and then gone radio silent while I agonizingly and frantically Googled 'KEN-RAD T-plates' while awaiting a reply to my post.
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I'm such a jerk. I feel bad. I was messing with you. Don't kill me.
The flat plates do sound slightly different than the t plates, but from what I've gathered they're both very good sounding tubes.
Mine are flat plates. Very resolving, lots of impact, and a nice sweet tone.
You're fine.
Crisis averted.
I was driving home from work.It wouldn't have been so bad if you hadn't posted and then gone radio silent while I agonizingly and frantically Googled 'KEN-RAD T-plates' while awaiting a reply to my post.
What I got from Brent Jessee and lives up to billing: Ken-Rad VT-231, staggered plates, smoked glass. Listening to Charles Lloyd flute solo in "Tagore on the Delta" ("Passin' Thru" album), the physicality of Lloyd's flute (he plays flute as well as sax) is palpable; now onto the title track, starting with a fantastic duet between Reuben Rogers (bass) and Eric Harland (drums). I've heard these guys live playing this same music from front-row seats, and except for the volume (trying to protect my remaining hearing) I don't find much missing dynamically, tonally, or in transients. Sound stage is another matter, but I doubt there's a way to get SFJAZZ front row staging on planar headphones.I was driving home from work.
Also, I don't think there is a smoked glass T plate Ken-Rad VT231... Just flat plate.
I could be wrong.
GE = not great. I bought a whole bunch of the damned things when I was tube rolling on the Elise.
I wouldn't exactly describe the GE tube sound as akin to someone neutering a cat with no anesthesia while their 6 year old practiced on trumpet for the first time in a dank mountain cave... but I'd believe it if somebody said it.
Oh crap! There's more than one?? ...
The one I'm getting has narrow, flat, black plates that are somewhat at an angle from each other. Not T plate. Should I cancel the order?
Oh crap! There's more than one?? ...
The one I'm getting has narrow, flat, black plates that are somewhat at an angle from each other. Not T plate. Should I cancel the order?
Somehow I missed that brand (GE) when purchasing my collection.
Seems like quite a difference in price, between the two, but could be interesting. . .Has anyone done a comparison of the Lyr 3 with the Torpedo III? If not, I may have to do one myself...
I was thinking the same thing. . .The Torpedo III is over 2x the coast of a Lyr 3, but it would be cool to see how it stacks up against a costlier amp from a value proposition and performance standpoint.
Has anyone done a comparison of the Lyr 3 with the Torpedo III? If not, I may have to do one myself...