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[Khragon]

Thanks, enjoying my system immensely.. tube rolling is an expensive hobby.  Spent my Yggy fund on the WE300B, no regrets, but now I got to off load some tubes to gain back some of that.  Any Woo'er getting Yggy?

 

[fhuang]

drool.....

 

[fhuang]

  Picture of my rig: 

 

 
 
and yes, that's how you build a rig for the t1.  wa2 when you needed a tube sound and a corda classic for ss.  i heard both with the t1.  wonderful setup

 

[isquirrel]

  Got my WE300B! I'm done with hunting for 300Bs now, between WE300B, Elrog and SERP I'm set.
I listen to mainly vocal tracks and it's definitely is smoother than the SERP, voices sounded sweeter and not as harsh.  However the SERP isn't far behind.  Going from memory the Elrog is just as sweet too with vocal tracks.  Too bad I'm still waiting for my Elrog, else I can do more direct comparison.  Factory is not issuing RMA until they receive my set, they wanted to examine my set to see what cause the failure.
 

 

 
I'm selling the SERP if anyone is interested, I would like to keep them, but got to recoup the fund.

Beautful tubes, just burned in my 2nd set of Takatsuki's (don't go there 

) and my 3rd set of Elrog's this time both Matt have exact same setup's so could;d compare notes re burn in.
 
No doubt best rectifier for the Elrog is the Takatsuki 274B the Mullard GZ34 metal base is good but a bit lean, the Tak 274B add's substantially more bass, texture and all the good stuff.
 
Now for the bad news, I seriously throught something had broken in my system it sounded so bad until I cracked the 200 hour mark, further improvements but much less dramatic still going on as they pass the 250 hour mark. Note at 150 hours it was so bad I thought my hearing had gone bad, dramatic change at 200+ a different sounding tube from there.
 
Elrog's not so hard, sound is pretty consistent but does improve nicely through the 100 hour mark.
 
Have some serious (insanity) upgrades coming over the next 2 months.
 
Now to run in the 300B's 

 
I prefer the Takatsuki's over the WE300B's and the Elrog's are really in a different category as they only thing they have in common with 300B's of yore are the pins.

 

[isquirrel]

  Got my WE300B! I'm done with hunting for 300Bs now, between WE300B, Elrog and SERP I'm set.
I listen to mainly vocal tracks and it's definitely is smoother than the SERP, voices sounded sweeter and not as harsh.  However the SERP isn't far behind.  Going from memory the Elrog is just as sweet too with vocal tracks.  Too bad I'm still waiting for my Elrog, else I can do more direct comparison.  Factory is not issuing RMA until they receive my set, they wanted to examine my set to see what cause the failure.
 

 

 
I'm selling the SERP if anyone is interested, I would like to keep them, but got to recoup the fund.

Now all you need is some 234's to really make those valves sing 

 

 

[Khragon]

 
Now all you need is some 234's to really make those valves sing 

 

Haha, the valves maybe singing, but I'll be choking from my wife's strangle hold.

 

[isquirrel]

  Haha, the valves maybe singing, but I'll be choking from my wife's strangle hold.

Lol, I truly understand 

 that's why I spend most of my time now listening to my head-fi setup, big systems and late night listening sessions invariably led to another argument with my wife over “proper listening levels” and whether or not I’d be allowed to have the remote back. Whoops, another divorce. Women and high fi like oil and water most of the time.
 
Now I am in my room "not disturbing others" listening to Head-Fi the replacement GF couldn't care less (as long as their's no comments on her ridiculously expensive beauty cream) Seriously I cannot get over how many 300B's worth of face cream gets used.
 
There are cunning ways to convince her you've done the deal of the century - they never look the stuff up....... 

 

[isquirrel]

Anyone interested in LCD-3F's and X's like new, vegan style bought in - (X's July 14) (3F's Nov 14) with carry cases etc etc.

 

[Badas]

  Anyone interested in LCD-3F's and X's like new, vegan style bought in - (X's July 14) (3F's Nov 14) with carry cases etc etc.

Has the Abyss won????

 

[isquirrel]

Yep, had to buy a pair and get used to the very different from the norm hanging off the ears thing. I had no choice, Matt kept 

 until I did it.
 
Glad I did, nothing else like it. I thought the Audeze's had decent bass, lol, these things = different league.
 
Even FC GF likes them which is a huge turnaround from the "you look ridiculous" stance a while ago, wallet be dammed!!

 

[Badas]

  Yep, had to buy a pair and get used to the very different from the norm hanging off the ears thing. I had no choice, Matt kept 

 until I did it.
 
Glad I did, nothing else like it. I thought the Audeze's had decent bass, lol, these things = different league.
 
Even FC GF likes them which is a huge turnaround from the "you look ridiculous" stance a while ago, wallet be dammed!!

Interesting. What is your thoughts of the mid-range and treble? I just can't pry myself away from the Audeze mid-range. Bass is nice but I don't crave it.

 

[fhuang]

 
Now all you need is some 234's to really make those valves sing 

 

 
 
i heard you saying 234 is better than wa5 before, but sound signature wise, how close are they?  of course using the same tubes combinations. 

 

[Khragon]

   
 
i heard you saying 234 is better than wa5 before, but sound signature wise, how close are they?  of course using the same tubes combinations. 

*lying to myself*
They're the same...same great Woo 300B signature, romantic, sweet non fatiguing sound.  No need to spend the extra dough for 234.. really no need. 

 

[fhuang]

  *lying to myself*
They're the same...same great Woo 300B signature, romantic, sweet non fatiguing sound.  No need to spend the extra dough for 234.. really no need. 

 
 
 
you know i was asking it for you

 

[Stereolab42]

  Got my WE300B! I'm done with hunting for 300Bs now, between WE300B, Elrog and SERP I'm set.
I listen to mainly vocal tracks and it's definitely is smoother than the SERP, voices sounded sweeter and not as harsh.  However the SERP isn't far behind.  Going from memory the Elrog is just as sweet too with vocal tracks.  Too bad I'm still waiting for my Elrog, else I can do more direct comparison.  Factory is not issuing RMA until they receive my set, they wanted to examine my set to see what cause the failure.

 
Nice, what year are your WE300Bs?