Show us your Head-Fi station at it's current state. No old pictures please...
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I love my SR1a... this setup is aspirational!morning light...(lid is off the Heléne because I experiment with the bias settings)
gimmeheadroom
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Made in Australia Mullard, yet! How fitting!
And it's good? Sound impressions? I'd read that Aussie Mullards weren't great.Made in Australia Mullard, yet! How fitting!
changed out some stuff and swapped in a NAD M23 power amp + Lumin U2 mini. also added a Lab12 Gordian power conditioner.
might need to add an extra shelf.. don't like the Gordian on the floor, especially with kids who wanna step on stuff all the time.
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gimmeheadroom
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Well our friend @Silver Wolf is from Down Under so I'm sure he's pleased to be able to have tubes made in his country. Not many places in the world where one can say that!
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How do you like your Lyr+ and bifrost and what tube are you using? I just got the Lyr 3 again with the multibit as I felt it was a space saver and much cheaper than that route, plus I loved this combo when I had it before.
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Not sure yet. I have the Bifrost 2/64 and the combo with the Lyr+ makes the setup more neutral than what I’m used to. I enjoy a bit of warmth and darkness. I may swap the old Bifrost card in to see how that sounds.
I’m using a tung sol tube. Going to try my Shuguang treasure tomorrow.
Yes, we'll never run out of tubes.Well our friend @Silver Wolf is from Down Under so I'm sure he's pleased to be able to have tubes made in his country. Not many places in the world where one can say that!
Silver Wolf
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Well our friend @Silver Wolf is from Down Under so I'm sure he's pleased to be able to have tubes made in his country. Not many places in the world where one can say that!
I'm not good with word-salads to describe details I'm sorry, that and I'm a retired old fart (so aged hearing and suspected losses etc) so I bow out 'n don't get into that side of things. I just try to enjoy things best as I can for myself. Also the Mullards above only have a few hours on them so early but they sound fine to my ears, I'm happy and scored them very cheap
But in regard to Aussie Vs UK manufactured Mullards, what I can say is I have a few 12au7 Mullards (BVA and Aussie) and I can't tell them apart if I honest myself (all have "Mullard" house sound to me), YMMV as we're all different with varying gear, mine may not be as resolving as someone else's etc. I don't know much about tubes but from what I read Mullard only had 1 factory in Sydney, Australia which had a short life as most states opened up Philips factory production making early Aussie Mullards and Philips gear etc...
Edit: Just to add from what I can tell the tube we've been discussing (Mullard 6SN7GTA) is a rare oddity as UK Mullard operations never produced a 6SN7GTA, no idea myself but they fetch a hefty price 'n mine only cost me $45
... I've very happy giggle 
Edit 2: Surprised we're talking about the Mullard 6SN7GTA when there's a rare MWT/Osram/GEC A1834/6080 gold plated copper oddity in the picture giggle...
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Edit 3: MWT/Osram/GEC A1834/6080 pic etc..
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gimmeheadroom
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I had your post only partially on my screen and I said to myself huh, I wonder who has a 3D printer on his desk. Then I scrolled and saw your desktop rack
