Ooh, lucky bugger on the Gungnir.

I believe the smell is from the pads. Congratz!

For anyone wondering, Smoked Bronze is also nice, it shifts between this gold color in brighter light to the stock Tungsten "tungsten grey" color in lesser light.

Nice, my double-sided will be Northern Lights as well. This is a video he sent me of them a week or two ago. Touch of gold color shift in there too.

I believe this is what's being referred to: It sits in between the spring steel sheet attached to the pads and the chassis. The straight line cutouts provide a vent. By default SS does not come with them and I'm not sure what DS's configuration is by default anymore. Ryan gave me a pair to...

MJ3 and Jot 2 do fine with single sided Tungstens so they should have no problem whether you got SS or DS Tungsten. Can't comment on the THX and Topping stuff.

The current round of MJ3 has a 220V option, this batch might be sold out already though. I'm so far behind on that thread.

Anyone who has been reading my impressions, hold off on making a decision based on them. I realized last night that I have a mismatched set of cables coming out of my Douk switcher and going to the Mjolnir 3 vs Mentor. The line into the Douk is World's Best Canare XLR, and going to MJ3 is also...

Not detecting any changes in the bottom end on Mentor in the lower gain modes. Mjolnir 3 still seems to have the edge there. Will let it burn in more and see if anything changes with that.

You will be fine with the Jotunheim 2 and/or Mjolnir 3. Pursue other options later as much as your level of "the gear acquisition disease" warrants.

At the moment based on my listening that would be MJ3, but I do not have a lot of hours on the Mentor in total and I believe they recommend 100+ hours for burn in (if you're into that sort of thing), I also have not tried the other gain modes to see if the signature changes. That testing should...

No problem driving SS Tungsten on either amp IMO. My volume matching setup is to play a 440hz non-replay-gained test track as well as a 1k track and a pink noise track and get the volumes matched to the same tenth of a db using a decibel meter. Both amps are in high gain and I think I was at...

Seems like Mentor got popular. I also don't know how affected their production is by the war, if they're still in Kharkiv they might be struggling.

If you have been given a tracking number on the order site just check that for movement. Mine is still "In Processing" and I've had it for a week. IIRC it took about 10 days to see movement from UPS. Login to the UPS tracking site if you have an account with your address attached to it and you...

I posted specific track examples that show it as well. Doing that 20hz test is the fastest way to confirm if the bass has come up on Mentor after more burn in time (or at the different gain settings).

I suppose it's possible, MJ3 I've had since launch so it does have a bunch of hours on it, Mentor has gotten about 10-20 hours of use so far. The bass test is easy to reproduce with the 20hz sample file so I can check it again later on.

So I've been listening some more, and I broke out the Douk XLR switcher for some head to head comparisons of Mentor to Mjolnir 3. The chain is, Moode Raspberry Pi 4 USB to Bifrost 2/64 -XLR-> Lokius (in bypass) -XLR-> Douk Switcher -XLR-> MJ3/Mentor. MJ3 in high gain, Class A, Feedback off...

Unpacked my single Mentor today, looks like US CBP opened the box which is a shame cause they did a fairly crappy job re-taping it, but everything was intact. Mentor drives single sided Tungstens perfectly well, it should have no issues with double sided either. Initial impressions are it sounds...

Of course UPS tries to deliver today, the ONE day this month I wasn't home.

The shipping price from a warzone to overseas wasn't surprising, specially given the weight. Paying the paypal processing fee makes me realize how much of a ripoff Paypal is.

This. Is. Truth.

I like that tone shift, I'm glad I went with the Titanium Grey now. Weather permitting I should get mine tomorrow.

Oh I checked again and looks like UPS does have mine, woot!

When did you order? Hopefully I'm soon, I have tracking but no movement on it.