[bcowen]

Looks like I'll just have to deal with weeping open sores for now.

You might should get a re-diagnosis on that. Has @Paladin79 been sending you those envelopes full of singles by chance?

 

[sam6550a]

Finnegan was technically my daughter’s cat for a short time but he was left in my care. I had just collected rent when she stopped by, I told her I would offer her what was in the envelope for him. All those ones and fives must have looked like $10,000 at first glance.

You got a good deal!

 

[Paladin79]

.... and no poles at the bank, either ....

Well there was one along with a lot of mirrors in the family room at the rental. But that was a few years ago.

 

[Paladin79]

.... but he thinks triumvirate: Augustus, Julius, Coweenius (!)

You might want to change Augustus to either Pompey or Crassus but you are close.

 

[Paladin79]

You got a good deal!

He is a great one, he is right there for music if I am. When using the Vali 3 at my desk he is close to my open headphones.

 

[Jason Stoddard]

Almost missed National Tortoise Day!

Yes, that's Lisa, making medieval-style tile for our house under construction, and Warwick, a random tortoise eating an apple. Typical weekend in Corpus Christi.

 

[jonathan c]

Yes! It's $10k a dose. How many would you like? I accept PayPal.

.... but not in Friends 'n Family mode

 

[jonathan c]

I would expect nothing less from one of the "Most interesting man in the (audio) world!"

"I don't listen to hybrid amps much .... but when I do, it's Vali Tres".

 

[sixergixer]

Happy to report being on the far side of Covid, am now out of isolation (hard to do with a large family), and am on the mend.

Re-watched the entire first season of The Rings of Power and listened to nearly all of Book 4 of The Wheel of Time. No sci-fi to be found anywhere in my isolation, it seems! Lol

Thank you for the well-wishes.

 

[jonathan c]

Speaking of Vali 3, pimp it !!

[No more nice Vali 3 ... this one's TFK G-73R fueled.]

 

[adydula]

Yeah but I know a guy who will pay me top dollar for that.
Hopefully you like the tube, I thought it sounded pretty good but what do I know? The second tube is probably not that great but I wanted to make up for a tube that got broken that I wanted to send.

Tom,

The Amperex is superb!
I havent tried the RCA yet.

I am beginning to think I like or prefer the 12xxx family better in the Vali 3 than the OG designed tubes, even the WE396's...yeah strange but I will continue to
listen....

Alex

 

[Paladin79]

Speaking of Vali 3, pimp it !! [No more nice Vali 3 ... this one's TFK G-73 fueled.]

lol let me know when your family stages the intervention and I will try to be there.

 

[jonathan c]

Tom,

The Amperex is superb!
I havent tried the RCA yet.

I am beginning to think I like or prefer the 12xxx family better in the Vali 3 than the OG designed tubes, even the WE396's...yeah strange but I will continue to
listen....

Alex

.... The soundstaging, for me, via 12AU7 / ECC82 is somewhat airier, deeper, wider than with 396A / 2C51/ 5670 .... .

 

[jonathan c]

lol let me know when your family stages the intervention and I will try to be there.

.... family -> member intervention; Paladin79 -> tube interception ....

 

[Paladin79]

Tom,

The Amperex is superb!
I havent tried the RCA yet.

I am beginning to think I like or prefer the 12xxx family better in the Vali 3 than the OG designed tubes, even the WE396's...yeah strange but I will continue to
listen....

Alex

Oh good, perhaps there is hope for me in tube selection.