No hack???

The relieved edges really add to the beauty.

Would power switches on the back be commercially viable?

The album is Tabernakel. Thanks for motivating me to go upstairs and find it. Found a bunch of stuff I'd forgotten I had. Sigh.....now I need to set up a TT so I can digitize some of the out of print stuff. A great reason to take the Mani2 out of the box.

Didn't he also do a lute album?

TubeWorldExpress is asking $99 for it. Thanks for the other tube recommendations!

Dear TubeHeads, Please help a tube newbie. I'm contemplating getting a Western Electric 396A NOS from 1985 with a rating of 7.5/8.4ma. I know what NOS is. What are the rating numbers rating? (yes, it's milliamps, but of what?) How do you tell a good rating from a bad one? How important is the...

Sigh.... you tube heads may have another convert. The Vali 3 showed up today. It's lovely. I'm going to have to do some serious listening to see how it compares with the Jot2 to try to qualify the sonic difference. Unfortunately, I can't find my TRS cable for the ZMF's so I'm listening with the...

I've found grandchildren as teenagers to be very enjoyable.

Ummmm, blush, yes <sheepish face/>

I give.... I give already. I've ordered a Vali 3. The spouse and grandkids are wailing that I've stepped on to the slippery slope that will impoverish them. Now whenever I'm on the computer they want to know if I'm reading Head-fi tube propaganda again. Sigh........

I hope people will compare the Vali 3 with the Lyr+ and Jot2 cuz I really want an excuse to try tubes, WAF allowing.

Or DRTFM

Let's see....how to treat my FOMO after just squeaking a used Yggy OG A2/Unison into the budget before retiring and hearing how wonderful the MiB is. Do I ration the cat treats until I've saved enough for a MiB (or MiB++ by that time) or just take a deep breath and realize how much I enjoy the...

You get a discount for the backup copy....

Forget the Yggydeliveryimmediatus. Wait until you come down with YggyDeliveredItus. That's when you'll need the days off! Which is to take nothing away from the physical pain of Yggydeliveryimmediatus.

10?

Moderator, please delete this account. No one should be able to distribute such heresy. Typically, it's staff that acquire the master's characteristics, not the other way around. At least in my house.......

I love my Bifrost 2/64 also. Heard things I hadn't heard before even in familiar music. With some trepidation, I splurged on a used Yggy OG. OMG, I love it! Listened to bits of Keith Jarret's Koln Concert and Eno's Another Day on Earth yesterday. I couldn't believe that there would still be new...

+1 for Rekkr. Just for grins, I had hooked up your mini-radials to a Jot2 pre-amp out. It worked in that there was some sound out but Rekkr is *much* better.

I assume bcowan has already seen this cutting tool:

Ah.... Quarterdeck's Desqview with an expanded memory card. Those were the days.

I read today that TI is building an $11B fab in Utah(?). When I saw that my mind filled in the blank with "to meet Shiit's demand".

So " the 1700E can manage pristine, faithful playback with optimal accuracy, even restoring information that was lost during the original digital recording." Really???? Any ideas on what this means? Up-sampling? Just marketeering?

Maybe Sol2 <grin>