jonathan c
Headphoneus Supremus
Wherever: make sure that you separate the NOS Tung-Sols from the designer tongue-soles ....
I miss my Asgard 2, sold it to a friend when I got the Jotunheim 2.Asgard 2 for me (but I’ll locate an original sooner or later…).
It's a wee bit late to start. An Incubus with your tube collection is TOTL.Finding true NOS now days is rare. Finding used but NOS measuring is getting harder.
I hear ya. One reason I've never owned a Vali is there's no way I could mentally get past paying more for a tube than my amp. That's why I own a Lyr 3 and an Incubus. More and higher priced tube options without being mentally conflicted.
I would not have been able to amass my hoard at these prices. Fortunately I got started years ago.
It's s the new normal it seems.
And that seems a lil more reasonable. Good deals even.I got the 396 for only $65 and the pair of tested 5670’s for $50.
You’re moving to Corpus, right? There’s some damn fine German food/music (if you like accordions) in those parts… including this place. Can’t recall if they have pretzels, but the sausages and streudel are quite good.Oh, you can bet your butt!
Not my actual Frühstück, sadly, mostly because I can’t get actually good soft pretzels or rolls to safe my life over here. But close enough for illustration purposes.
With that said, there’s a nice restaurant up in Sutter Creek, CA, the creatively named Sutter Creek Hotel, and they have pretty decent soft pretzels on the menu. They dowse them in butter, which I don’t love, but they’re better than most other soft pretzels I’ve ever had on the west coast. And there’s a German bakery in San Jose, CA, that’s got some pretty good stuff. But they’re both a bit too far away from where I live to go fetch some fresh baked goods for a proper breakfast.
Fingers crossed that this will change once I’m in Texas. The area that I’ll be moving to in a few weeks has a strong, active German background, and here’s hoping that there’s at least one solid bakery in driving distance.
Speaking of soft pretzels…
I don’t remember where exactly that was, but one of the best soft pretzels I’ve ever had was in Manhattan, somewhere around the Hell’s Kitchen area. Warm and crunchy and just the right amount of salt — and filled with marzipan!
Sounds like an abomination? Sounds like heresy? Oh, you’ve got no idea! The only heresy here is that it tasted like literal heaven on earth!
That said, once you move here, in the summer heat, Kölsch is pretty fine.Love it.
Although, calling Kölsch a beer is taking some poetic license, for sure.
Just remember there are adapters that can allow for other tubes to be used in a Vali 3, there are options.Sigh.... you tube heads may have another convert. The Vali 3 showed up today. It's lovely. I'm going to have to do some serious listening to see how it compares with the Jot2 to try to qualify the sonic difference. Unfortunately, I can't find my TRS cable for the ZMF's so I'm listening with the Aeon RTs. I don't know if it was a volume thing or just buyer's expectation bias, but The Koln Concert sounded wonderful. Now I'm wondering "So if one tube sounds like this, what would four tubes sound like?" And down the slippery slope I go. Also started looking at tube prices which I had previously been immune to.