Schiit Lyr 3 Tube rolling thread.....

[earnmyturns]

I have too many headphone amps, 3 at home, one at work. Since I got my new ZMF Verité headphones, I've been flipping between the solid-state Phonitor XE and the vintage hybrid Apex Peak, while my Lyr 3 with a Psvane 6SN7-UK looked on without much love. I was edging to putting it on sale with a few tubes, but then just on a whim I plugged the D-getter that I had bought from @ProfFalkin to listen to Rhiannon Gidden's There Is No Other and now I'm stepping back from the edge, what great match for Giddens's voice!

More objectively, the Ether C Closed 1.1 headphones I was using sound a bit too edgy with the Phonitor XE for some material, and love the extra power of the Lyr 3 over the Apex Peak. The Verité are a better match to the lower power of the Peak, and they smooth out slightly the Phonitor's straight-edge dynamics.

I'm moving to a different house in a few weeks where I'll have to rearrange all my audio gear anyway, so I'm not making any moves until we settle in, but that D-getter just complicated my ultimate decision.

 

[ProfFalkin]

=) Glad you still like it

 

[earnmyturns]

=) Glad you still like it

Yes, I do, but I'm afraid of burning it out too soon, so I've been using the Psvane. The Verité headphones bring out a kind of mid-high glare from the Psvane tube, which is absent with the D-getter. With the C Flows, the difference between the two tubes shrinks.

 

[Ripper2860]

Marconi B65. Very nice sounding in Lyr 3. Nice bass punch, excellent/smooth mids, nice top-end w/o sounding brittle or etchy. Nice soundstage, although not as wide as Melz 1578. Definitely giving this guy some serious play time...



**Thanks, Stavros.

 

[earnmyturns]

Back to Lyr with D-getter and ZMF Verité thread: via Qobuz Sublime+, I found a while ago an unusual album, Glass: Metamorphosis, The Hours transcribed for harp and performed by harpist Lavinia Meijer. I'm a Philip Glass and more generally minimalism fan, so not so surprising that I'd like this. But I had not listened to it on this particular amp/tube/headphones combo, and I must say that I'm liking it even better than on my other setups. Resonant low-mids, depth, separation between different simultaneously plucked strings. Verité digs out sonic delights from well-matched systems like nothing I've experienced before. Which, given how much they cost, is what should be.

 

[attmci]

https://www.razzmatazz.it/en/marconi/2395-marconi-b65-brimar-6sn7gt-881521444634.html

No offense, structure of a tube is always more important than the label.

 

[m17xr2b]

Marconi B65. Very nice sounding in Lyr 3. Nice bass punch, excellent/smooth mids, nice top-end w/o sounding brittle or etchy. Nice soundstage, although not as wide as Melz 1578. Definitely giving this guy some serious play time...



**Thanks, Stavros.

That is the newly hyped brimar 6SN7(GT,GTY), not a MOV B65 tube. The round plates are a giveway.

 

[Ripper2860]

That is the newly hyped brimar 6SN7(GT,GTY), not a MOV B65 tube. The round plates are a giveway.

https://www.razzmatazz.it/en/marconi/2395-marconi-b65-brimar-6sn7gt-881521444634.html

No offense, structure of a tube is always more important than the label.

Yep -- knew it was a Marconi made by Brimar. I have a Brimar 6SN7GT round-plate as well and structurally, they appear identical. It's labeled Marconi and a B65 (silk-screened on back glass and not visible in 1st pic, but see below) and while I do not know a lot about B65s (other than they are interchangeable with 6SN7), this tube does seem to carry a bit more weight on the bottom-end than my Brimar 6SN7GT. Maybe it's just a stronger tube -- maybe it's MFG variances, who knows, but it does sound different than my current Brimar 6SN7GT. Still a nice tube -- no matter who made it and what it's labeled.

Back glass markings. Also -- No sign of 'Foreign Made' notice on the tube. Do not have the original box.

 

[bcowen]

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[Ripper2860]

Could be, but in this case -- NO!!

 

[bcowen]

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[Ripper2860]

I knew before I even posted the pic that you would come back with that. I decided that this thread and my posts had a greater calling and I would not deny other members by allowing your anticipated response to deter me from posting.

Now excuse me -- I have a new audiophile fuse to install in my Lyr HP amp.

 

[bcowen]

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[Zachik]

Now excuse me -- I have a new audiophile fuse to install in my Lyr HP amp.

Unless it cost more than the Lyr3 amp - it is NOT audiophile grade fuse! FYI, in case you're confused by the hype...

 

[Ripper2860]

As long as I think it's audiophile, that's all that matters.