It's steel, if anything it will scratch aluminum WooAudio stand, leaving on the table puts stress on leather strap, reason some older HE-1000 have it flopping around.I'd just leave Susvara on the table on top of a felt mat. Hanging it by the metal part will one day scratch the metal.
I love EL34s. Years ago I had amps w/8 of them, 4 per channel (I alternated w/KT88s, but EL34s sounded so perfect).BHSE with Mullard NOS EL34 XF2 and Titan Labs Helen Jitter Purifier on my new RTI Audio Rack.
Topre Realforce TKL ANSI 55G in white/grey I love it
After my son destroyed his very cheap cans (from his child-camera) -I repaired them several times-, I'm thinking of give to him my Superlux HD 668-B which I don't use anymore because of the comfort... A good pair of headphones to enter in this world, but my headphones are still untouchables by them... I don't want to find them playing with them...Brilliant! I'm looking forward to the day when baby waveSounds is old enough to play video games with me. That game brings back many memories, and awesome that your kids get to share your spot (respectfully). Now you just need to add an amp with two headphone outs and let them each choose a 'can for their gaming sessions
Love the keyboard, too.
Congrats! What a beautiful amp!Well, amp #8 arrived the other day (yes, psychiatric intervention sorely overdue). I have one amp F.S. here (Kinki Studio Vision THR-1), but this gently used Icon Audio HP8 MKII deal came up and could not be ignored. These don't come up F.S. very often (pictures below...excuse the pigsty desktop).
And now I see why they don't come up F.S. very often. Even with stock power tubes and a decent but not outstanding input tube, this amp sounds amazing. It has easily the best bass I've ever heard from a tube amp. It goes lower, hits harder, and conveys tonal nuances in the bass far better than any other tube amp I've heard. I haven't lived with any of the big transformer-couple amps many here have, but I've heard a number of them at shows. This bass is crazy good. The rest of the frequencies are quite good, as well; plus the usual 3D note thing and extra space in the soundstage that tube amps do.
With aid from @geoffalter11, who also owns one of these, tube rolling will soon commence, and I suspect everything I like about this amp will get even better. We've had fun PM'ing about this remarkable little amp. It certainly doesn't hurt that it's such a handsome design.
i like the furniture tooA lot of lamps
Wow, that iMac blast-from-the-past!
Blast from the past here...
