[RickB]

You're going to have to set up a whole Silver / Black Schiit arbitrage market.
Maybe with a side of powdercoating any color you like. (that's colour for y'all 'cross the pond).

What was that company that would paint your AirPods any colorway for a very expensive price? They could do Schiit, too.

 

[jonathan c]

Me, two days ago:
"I should probably order eight or ten 6n6p tubes so that I have a few spares for the Folkvangr…"

Me, looking through the box of tubes in my closet just now:
"Huh, when did I buy those ten 6n6p?!"

What's the exact size of a tube stash to warrant keeping an inventory file? Asking for a friend…***

*** alter asking for ego ….

 

[artur9]

... As a child I had a random dream of this ginormous pink gem, like 12" x 4", emmiting glorious pink light inside a cave. ...

Sounds like a Steven Universe episode.

 

[artur9]

Barbie Aegir, anyone?

Aegir shaped like Ms Robbie?

 

[artur9]

When you start considering buying more tubes as spares to tubes you forgot you already bought spares for is the time when you need a formal tube inventory tracking sheet or database.

Didn't Jason run into this problem? Maybe he'd consider a SaaS tube inventory system for Schiitheads?

 

[Currawong]

Sorry to post a completely non-Schiit related question here, but I thought that I'd take advantage of the impressive technical knowledge regularly on display in this forum: Does anyone have any experience using amplifiers from the domestic Japanese market in the US? I was recently in Tokyo and visited a couple of shops in Akihabara and they didn't recommend buying an amp in Tokyo and bringing it to the US due to the voltage difference: Japan domestic outlets provide a constant 100V voltage, whereas in the US we have 120V +/- 6%. Apparently, the amplifiers made for the domestic Japanese market are designed for 100V constant voltage and the dealer didn't recommend using it in the US. My guess is that the input stages are fed by regulated power supplies so they should be OK, but the output stage power supply may well be unregulated, which would increase the voltage by 20% (and power by 44%) so I guess the risk is frying the output stage. Any advice from all you fine and knowledgeable folks? (Why buy in Tokyo you ask? To which I say: Have you checked the USD/JPY exchange rate lately?)

A good, overbuilt transformer will solve that issue. I have one here for the reverse issue. Some Schiit products wont work, or won't work correctly without at least 110V.
Japanese manufacturers have been taking advantage of the voltage difference to prevent grey-market sales of their products.

Also, Japan has 50 & 60 Hertz power. Check which one the amp requires or if will it work with either. My transformer provides 50 for the Exclusive M3.

They all have to work with either. Half the country is 50 Hz, and half 60 Hz.

Has Jason ever explained why he went with op-amps for the analog stage in the LIM and MIB instead of using a fully-discrete design like the one used in the OG?

I find it to be quite the head-scratcher that he would choose to use op-amps anywhere in a flagship product like the Yggy.

Someone else already said it, but newer opamps are much better than before.

 

[XERO1]

The only thing more irritating than buying tubes because you don't think you have them is knowing you have them but can't find 'em. Buried in the stash somewhere. Telefunkens, I will find you....

 

[sixergixer]

Like, it's one thing to know a fella has a lot of tubes. It's completely another thing to see all those tubes.

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

Like, it's one thing to know a fella has a lot of tubes. It's completely another thing to see all those tubes.

Something tells me this might not even be his entire collection…

 

[Ripper2860]

I know Bill and he is a sneaky one. There's a reason why you are only seeing boxes and not tubes.

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

I know Bill and he is a sneaky one. There's a reason why you are only seeing boxes and not tubes.

Good point.
And might I point out the obvious? Mr. Cardboard himself is storing his tubes in plastic containers.

 

[Ripper2860]

Which only further proves it is likely not even his stash of tube boxes.

** It is nice to see Bill expanding his use of Google Image Searches beyond searching 'Hog Wild -- BBQ Ladies of NC'.

 

[Timster]

Which only further proves it is likely not even his stash of tube boxes.

** It is nice to see Bill expanding his use of Google Image Search beyond searching 'Hog Wild -- BBQ Ladies of NC'.

That's a thing?!?!?!?
Must resist....

 

[EricDH]

Something tells me this might not even be his entire collection…

If it was, he would have found his Telefunkens.....

 

[Ripper2860]

That's a thing?!?!?!?
Must resist....

I'm not sure. I'm too scared to look for myself.