Checked my e-mail this evening, there's a note from Schiit that my FV has shipped! Tracking says I'll have in on Wednesday, 7/6, upgraded from the original anticipated date of 7/8! The Gungnir I ordered is supposed to be here on Saturday so I'll have time to let it warm up a bit before the big FV debut.
Given how FedEx has been funtioning lately, if they originally promised 7/8 then the earliest you will get it is 7/10. I get shipping notices with a date then FedEx updates it a couple days earlier but then when you look it hasn't even moved from the initial checkin location on the day it was promised and takes more days before you get it. I hope I am wrong but FedEx has been a severe disappointment lately. They even sent me a delivered email saying they left it on the front porch. It was not there but did get delivered the next day. I wonder if they make comittments to vendors and then lie about delivery times so that they don't take a hit on payment?
Yeah FedEx is iffy. I think a lot depends on your hub. If things come from south of me I’m usually pretty good on getting it on time. If it goes north and ends up in Troutdale…forget it!! All bets are off…could and almost always does sit there for 4-5 days
All carriers are beyond iffy these days. UPS and probably FedEx have actually suspended ALL delivery time guarantees. You'll get it when you get it. God help the person who's waiting for a prescription! The topper though is Amazon. Their delivery "estimates" only involve their internal carrier network. They'll say you'll get something on Sunday if it's dumped on the Post Office's doorstep at 00:01 Sunday ignoring the fact that USPS doesn't deliver on Sunday, or on Monday when Monday is a holiday. I'll be surprised beyond belief if the FV actually shows up on Tuesday.
On the plus side,. pretty much all 6n6ps sound about the same to me. All I have to play with is the gain tubes and I've already got a ton from the early Lyr2 days.
Thanks for the suggestion of the Lyr. I'd been looking at that as we know from valiant66's post that the Magni 3 is nearly-but-not-quite there, so something with a tad more power is needed. I don't understand the math/maths/engineering so I can't read the specs and decide how much more power any given amp has compared to the Magni 3, and whether that's enough, hence the request for advice from the group.
Again very back-of-envelope calc, my estimate is that Lyr will deliver 2.4x more power than Magni 3 to your headphones. The (very rough) power (W) vs resistance (Ohm) graph:
For me, anything that goes thru Olathe, Kansas sits there for days before moving on. If it ships within my state then I almost never have a delay more than a day. Amazon on the other hand almost always delivers on time for me. And since most of my purchases are with Amazon I get a lot delivered from them.
You really should have waited until at least FedEx (or whomever) has documented your device has landed within the state. All 90(!) freshly burnished pins are now going to develop another oxide layer that will require removal yet again! You really should know better!!
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. I think the Folkvangr will do nicely.
