[Senex49]

• To Valiant Schiitheads, a 'high recommendation' tube for Vali 3 :
• Sylvania 'yellow print, long plate' 12AU7.
• Length of long plates? 17 millimetres.
• Needs 12AU7 --> 5670 adapter (Xuling).

I SWORE I wasn’t going to do this again but I just got one of those adapters. Where did you get this very particular tube? God have mercy on my soul.

 

[Paladin79]

I SWORE I wasn’t going to do this again but I just got one of those adapters. Where did you get this very particular tube? God have mercy on my soul.

lol this is how it starts, then you are buying tube boxes, cleaning swabs, a tube tester, and searching your house for an empty closet for tube storage.

 

[earnmyturns]

I hate the idea of not “owning” my library as it were as well,

My solution to that problem is to use Qobuz to learn about new music, and then buy the albums I like, mainly as digital downloads. I have a Qobuz Sublime annual subscription that gives good discounts on downloads, but I also (actually, mostly given the music I listen to) go to Bandcamp and find the album there. It may be a bit pricier, but more goes to the artists, which for me is important. As a last resort I buy CDs and rip them into my network of servers (I have servers in 3 separate physical locations that are kept in sync with Syncthing so that I have the same music available when I get to those locations).

 

[jonathan c]

I SWORE I wasn’t going to do this again but I just got one of those adapters. Where did you get this very particular tube? God have mercy on my soul.

• Ebay, Brent Jesse Recording, Tube World Express, Langrex (U.K.) .....
• Why the 'long plate' 12AU7? To my ears, it sounds better than same brand short / regular / unspecified plate 12AU7.

 

[jonathan c]

lol this is how it starts, then you are buying tube boxes, cleaning swabs, a tube tester, and searching your house for an empty closet for tube storage.

.... this is how it can end:

 

[Paladin79]

.... this is how it can end:

 

[sixergixer]

My solution to that problem is to use Qobuz to learn about new music, and then buy the albums I like, mainly as digital downloads. I have a Qobuz Sublime annual subscription that gives good discounts on downloads, but I also (actually, mostly given the music I listen to) go to Bandcamp and find the album there. It may be a bit pricier, but more goes to the artists, which for me is important. As a last resort I buy CDs and rip them into my network of servers (I have servers in 3 separate physical locations that are kept in sync with Syncthing so that I have the same music available when I get to those locations).

This is the way.

 

[Nayyte]

My first night listening sesh with the mjolnir 2. Kicking some ass with my HD600s. Makes me question the need for an OTL, at all.

 

[Moondog55]

My first night listening sesh with the mjolnir 2. Kicking some ass with my HD600s. Makes me question the need for an OTL, at all.

That's until you hear an OTL amp paired with 300 ohm headphones.

 

[jonathan c]

That's until you hear a higher output impedance OTL amp paired with 300 ohm headphones.

FTFY....[Reg. TM; © bcowen: 2021.] Some OTLs feature low output impedance: e.g. LTA MZ2, LTA MZ3, LTA Velo; Schiit Valhalla 2.

 

[bevanc]

FTFY....[Reg. TM; © bcowen: 2021.] Some OTLs feature low output impedance: e.g. LTA MZ2, LTA MZ3, LTA Velo; Schiit Valhalla 2.

Playing the new Willow album with Valhalla 2 into the Focal Elex. Tubes are CV455 KB/FB Brimar Triple Mica 1956 & Foton 6N6P Gold Grid tubes. Thanks to @Ripper2860 for the suggestions on the tubes. Yes Willow Smith. Yes it's good. Features Jon Batiste and St Vinent on a couple of tracks.

 

[JamminVMI]

Amarone is wifey’s absolut favorite… do you know of Ripasso style? I call it poor man’s Amarone…

Pretty much any Italian red of quality is awesome in our book.

Gattinara is my favourite!

 

[jonathan c]

• I have a bevy (the proper collective noun?) of headphone amps that are ticked off at me:

Why?

This little amp that could continues to steal the show! An absolute, rollicking delight!

 

[bcowen]

lol this is how it starts, then you are buying tube boxes, cleaning swabs, a tube tester, and searching your house for an empty closet for tube storage.

That's Stage 2. Stage 3 starts when you have boxes appear on the front porch containing tubes you don't remember ordering, buying identical tubes on Ebay 'cause you forgot you already have some in the stash, and tube rolling becomes a 3-month long task to roll all 104 tubes that can possibly work in the component.

Actually that last part is more Stage 4-ish 'cause you bought 27 adapters in Stage 3.

 

[jonathan c]

That's Stage 2. Stage 3 starts when you have boxes appear on the front porch containing tubes you don't remember ordering, buying identical tubes on Ebay 'cause you forgot you already have some in the stash, and tube rolling becomes a 3-month long task to roll all 104 tubes that can possibly work in the component.

Actually that last part is more Stage 4-ish 'cause you bought 27 adapters in Stage 3.

Stage 5 is the ongoing effort to intercept such shipments before the missus ... ...