[GumbyDammit223]

So this will have to go in the back yard?

Not to mention a tub of PCB oil for convective cooling or if you don't like messy oil, a supersonic blower for forced air cooling.

 

[433521]

My concern on the 10 tube thing is the looks. I can't imagine the normal bare metal aesthetic is going to pass the wife test ... maybe show a little leg and sex it up for us at that price.

 

[RickB]

Can you imagine the heat a 10 tube amp would put out? You’d have to run your air conditioner at 60°.

 

[JLoud]

I have an amp with 9 tubes. It does indeed get warm. But the glow from all those tubes is so alluring.

 

[Ripper2860]

Can you imagine the heat a 10 tube amp would put out? You’d have to run your air conditioner at 60°.

Pffft. A small price to pay.

Don't make us take your tube amp aficionado card away.

BTW - I have 10 desk lamps with 100w bulbs setup in my room just to get acclimated ahead of a purchase.

 

[433521]

Proud to see the little man growing up! I wonder how this will affect the used price ... I don't think it's far fetched to think you could grab one used for well less than $100 including shipping and taxes.

I love America!

 

[killaHz]

I’m going to have a space soon where I can listen without earphones, and at first I’m just going to run the XLR preamp outs from my Jotunheim to a power amp I’ve got driving some very old Infinity bookshelf speakers.

They have 8” cones, so they won’t need as much bass reinforcement as some bookshelf speakers, but I figure I should still run RCA from the SE outputs to a powered subwoofer.

What I’m wondering is whether there are problems that might arise from having the two XLR channels running to the power amp in stereo while just running a single RCA to a subwoofer.

 

[FLTWS]

Can you imagine the heat a 10 tube amp would put out? You’d have to run your air conditioner at 60°.

Yes, but winter is coming where I live so...

 

[Odin412]

BTW - I have 10 desk lamps with 100w bulbs setup in my room just to get acclimated ahead of a purchase.

Now that's what I call a devoted customer!

 

[Brubacca]

I have a 9 tube amp.
(4) KT120
(3) 12AU7
(2) 12AX7

It's a great amp to use in the winter

 

[sam6550a]

It only weighs 13 ounces. The 160 AMP filament current may be an issue for some though...definitely gonna need an additional breaker panel.

And a blower that blows a hurricane through the cooling fins!

 

[drkhermushov]

@Jason Stoddard When will the EU warehouse's stock get their inventory?
I've been wnating to get a Vahalla 2 for more that 3 months...

 

[FLTWS]

I have a 9 tube amp.
(4) KT120
(3) 12AU7
(2) 12AX7

It's a great amp to use in the winter

Yep, they get warm but with A/C register on the floor blowing cool air into my amp its good to go.
Mine goes all the way to 14. Tubes that is. 2 matched Quads of KT88's and 6 x 12AU7's
2 matched quads of 150's may be in my future. I'll set the thermostat to 59 degrees, that should do it.

 

[438555]

I have a 9 tube amp.
(4) KT120
(3) 12AU7
(2) 12AX7

It's a great amp to use in the winter

It’s snowing here, but my Codex DAC and Lyr 2 amp are keeping me warm at my desk

 

[tincanear]

I’m going to have a space soon where I can listen without earphones, and at first I’m just going to run the XLR preamp outs from my Jotunheim to a power amp I’ve got driving some very old Infinity bookshelf speakers.

They have 8” cones, so they won’t need as much bass reinforcement as some bookshelf speakers, but I figure I should still run RCA from the SE outputs to a powered subwoofer.

What I’m wondering is whether there are problems that might arise from having the two XLR channels running to the power amp in stereo while just running a single RCA to a subwoofer.

this should work just fine, unless the amplifier has very low impedance xlr inputs. do you have a spec or mfr / model number?

. note that for Jotunheim specifically (which is weakly differential), switching between the XLR and SE inputs may require adjustment of the subwoofer's gain.