Yeah, and also its quality is overstated. It is good coffee, sure, but today's kopi luwak is animals in cages, eating and schitting coffee beans. There is vastly better coffee out there, you're missing out if you don't try it at least once in a while! I'm not into espresso, because I'm not rich...

It's totally a profitable move... They tried to enter a new market segment, and if they had not done what they did, which sure, was totally the best possible thing to do in their predicament, they would have ruined their reputation forever with a ton of people not interested in their digital...

Very sad about Robert, rip. One of the few individuals I've interacted with here that was as real as could be. Don't know much about him, but his presence will be missed.

You aren't the one that would have to open up RMAs with tape exploding the box though.

I think once 1 of the tubes has well and truly given out (you'll know), there will be no matching to them again, unless you buy a tester, calibrate it, and then go hunting for almost dead used tubes yourself. You're much better off just buying more matched pairs I think. And unless you think the...

I need to try this with noisy tubes I, am just too lazy. I have some 6F8G national unions that are incredible, and also incredibly noisy. I guess I'd have to find the ole solder iron too.... Many impediments to this path. But one day!

Nothing bad happens without tubes being matched, just one channel might be louder than another. They will fail at different times regardless of matched or not. It must be a mistake. 6H8C/6N8S are very close to 6SN7, but not the same. Nobody in the tube world refers to different tubes as being...

I agree, some people will buy it because of the price point, and not know how much adjustment you will need, also additional tools to really adjust fully. The other thing is about the no cart? If you added a dropdown box whose only option was "no cartridge" you'd probably save yourself quite a...

I think his point was that there are more expensive carts than 1k, much more expensive... He assumes it's wordplay, and not "don't spend more than 1k on a cart for Sol, it doesn't scale that high."

I have a kinu, look into them. Do you need automatic? If a manual is ok, you can get a kinu or lido for around 300-350, and it will compete with a lot of the high end stuff. Nothing beats the monolith, though for me, not making espresso, the kinu is probably nearly endgame.

We're all totally beating a dead horse, not sure why, but I agree totally. The idea that science knows all there is to know about running electricity through copper or silver wires is of course, bollocks. There are certainly people with better ears than others, but blind tests are the only thing...

I have to agree, save up for the good tubes. That said, I am not using my good tunes atm on a wa6, and the rca tubes I'm using are totally fine. I would go ahead and buy some ok nos tubes, then save up for whatever sounds like the best to you.

Thankful that there is a tad bit of reason in here concerning shipping. We live in such a consumerist culture, where for a few dollars, we expect, for a few paper dollars or 1s and 0s on a computer, to have something moved from one location to another, on time, with little regard for the...

Model citizen right here.

If you are going for great sound, out of the very best NOS tubes, I think schiit is a poor choice in the first place. It might be incredible, who knows, but there are some really great specialized tube amp builders out there, and I can't imagine schiit does it any better. I'm sure they do it...

Yes! Among the best of the 6F8G, there is not a huge difference, but for me, the Tung Sol round plate, and the National Union VT-99 are incredible. Extremely close to each other. There is a bit of a falloff to the RCA 6F8G that I have, though it's great too. That said, when I was getting into...

All good :) that would be a very limiting budget indeed. I think with that budget, don't worry about the high end rectifiers. Brimar or copper cap is what I'd go with. The best rectifiers are very expensive, much more than the best power/drivers. Power/driver tubes get plenty expensive, and...

Wait, is he looking for a new amp, or for tube rolling? He said tube rolling.....

You should read Dubstepgirl's thread on rectifiers, it's the best guide to rectifiers out there. For the driver/power tubes, if you don't want to use adapters, your options are somewhat limited. There are a lot of great 6SN7 tubes out there, and if you get adapters, 6F8G (the military...

While this may be true, they literally do not have the parts to put the thing together... They are doing what every other company ever does, waiting on schiit to arrive so they can assemble the things and sell them to you. See, to me, the first sentence sounds like you disagree, then you post a...

No, your brain adjusted. We are not robots, we change minute by minute. To be able to observe such small change would require a vantage point other than what our humanity offers. It's good! It means you're alive!

Yeah while it would be hard to recommend it, as Woo does not, I've used it for about a year now, and there is nothing that will cause you issues. At least mine in particular is fine. Only reason is that great rectifiers are so expensive. I have 1 really good rectifier, but because I do so...

A few days into running the WA6 with copper rectifier, and RCA VT-99, they sound great. I noticed the difference at first, but what I initially thought was a weakness of the RCA tubes, a syrupy quality, is countered by the copper rectifier. I still wonder if running the copper will improve the...

If only schiit had been in existence in 1927, when the TV was invented, we could have skipped all that marketing bs and planned obsolescence, and skipped straight to 24k! Man what would the world do without schiit. Some of you guys drink so much koolaid I swear. It's almost entertaining, but...

What? Nobody with a 4k telly is worried about getting 4k from their "legacy AVR." That's ridiculous to think that. Also, schiit is going to make some of their own products obsolete too. Like Unison USB, if it's really better than any other interconnect (like 4k is better than 1080p), then any...