[riffrafff]

Atomic Bob over at SBAF recommends the GE JAN 5670W for the Vali 3, and advises that WE 396A is not necessary for it.

My 1957 GE 5-Star 5670 3-mica sounds amazing in my Vali 3.

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

Man, the Yggy is bygg. Didn't realize the chassis was so deep.

The technical term is "thiccc."

 

[bcowen]

My 1957 GE 5-Star 5670 3-mica sounds amazing in my Vali 3.

So are you guys suggesting I should actually listen to one of these GE’s I’m tubesitting? Hmmmm. I’ll have to sleep on that.

 

[Timster]

When I worked at Nimbus Records, we pressed that disc on CD. I wonder if your pressing is a "Mastered By Nimbus" release...? Check the center of the disc, and our logo would be there, if so?

Mine def isn't. It was pressed in Australia (Disctronics back in the day?) in 1991.
Still sounds awesome though

 

[artur9]

Port Ellen? ...

Brora, not exactly the one shown. I'm not at the secret-undisclosed-location I keep Precious so don't have the exact bottling handy.

 

[artur9]

Some may find the books a bit cheesy, but I must mention Stephen Fry's reading of the Harry Potter series..

Yeah, we have Jim Dale's reading as Mr. Fry's were, for licensing reasons, not available in the U.S.

Great reader, Mr. Dale.

 

[highgrovemanor]

Audiophile means someone who loves sound. Most of the "high end" crowd are not audiophiles, they are equipment-philes. Price snobbery and elitism comes into play as well, of course, as does brand-snobbery, but mostly they want bragging rights and the "ooh ahh" bling factor. IMO anyway (and I used to be one of them, so perhaps I'm speaking only about myself

For sure! Photography as a hobby can suffer a similar fate of it being a hardware collection / bragging game. And it has fallen on hard times with its low end being replaced by smart phones. So it’s mostly high end pro gear (which at least performs for the price), and the consumer grade has drifted up in price as no cheap cash cows models from the bottom end.

In the pre-digital era, it was pretty easy to say if your music collection costs more than the hardware, you were into music. What say you in the digital era? $1 per song in your playlists should outspend your equipment to loose the pretender label? Hahahaha

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

Thought you might get a kick out of this. This post will self-destruct in 24 hours to prevent permanent damage to my reputaion.

(and these aren't mine.....just tubesitting for a friend)

Part of Mark's stash of JAN 5670s, I assume?

 

[bcowen]

Part of Mark's stash of JAN 5670s, I assume?

Yes it is. Not sure how many more he has, but I’m thinking these comprise maybe 5% of the total.

 

[Waffle Prime]

I was fortunate to hear my speakers in a private residence in a room shaped like my own. On that day I bought a Cary amp but I got to hear them with my future amp. With the addition of REL subs Sonus Fabers are fine for me. I have no thoughts of selling my house so my listening room will not change.
I should point out I bought my speaker and amp combination elsewhere.

Agree with this heartily. I auditioned some SF speakers about 15y ago, and while they were lovely they struggled in a big room even with subs. My ~1000sqft of contiguous open listening space was a challenge. Room size and configuration kept me looking for quite a few years!

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

Yes it is. Not sure how many more he has, but I’m thinking these comprise maybe 5% of the total.

Don't know, actually. He doesn't readily divulge this kind of information to people without tube testers… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[bcowen]

Don't know, actually. He doesn't readily divulge this kind of information to people without tube testers… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Assume this includes people that have a tester that doesn’t work? I wouldn’t know of anyone, just a hypothetical assumption.

 

[JamminVMI]

Don't know, actually. He doesn't readily divulge this kind of information to people without tube testers… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

'working' tube testers, to be precise...

 

[bcowen]

'working' tube testers, to be precise...

And I thought *I* was nitpicky…

 

[adydula]

After trying several 12AU7 type tubes...I scrounged thru some old boxes and found two Slyvania 5963's. I totally did not remember what these tubes were.
They seem to be 12AU7 type tubes...so I tried one in the Vali 3 with the 12AU7 adapter...and voila it worked nicely. A pleasant surprise for sure. These tubes can be had on the cheap compared to the more "in vogue" ones....Must have had these hiding away for years now... Amazing when you look thru all your old boxes..

Alex