[Paladin79]

It does…. And thanks to my new Yggy… I rode it just now to the local audio store and got a new Hana SL cartridge!

Yggy’s fault?

Yes, it’s made my digital so freaking good it was threatening my LP’s! And, the Denon IS old (about 800 hours but over 10 years!). So it was time anyways. Yggy just made it obvious

I have heard that cartridge, a very nice choice IMHO. Friends are setting up some demos for me since I will need to outfit a couple tone arms soon.

 

[Senex49]

Another question from the newbie:

How much "contribution" to the final sound I'm hearing out of, say, my new Vali 3 is attributable to the little WE JW 2C51 glowing in there? I read hybrid amplifier but I really don't know what that means operationally. We're all talking about, and buying, tubes but it would seem that since there is SS gear affecting the output Jason should be getting some huge plaudits for the final wonderful sound going to the headphones. I also have the Vali 2 and a Lyr 3 but don't really know what they are doing to make my sound.

Thank you all.

 

[jonathan c]

Hey I am out in the sun with my ***sausage fingers*** typing on a small keyboard. And there is smoke and tiny moth men.

*** will have a blast rolling 396A, 5670, 6CC42 etc in Vali 3 ....

 

[Paladin79]

Another question from the newbie:

How much "contribution" to the final sound I'm hearing out of, say, my new Vali 3 is attributable to the little WE JW 2C51 glowing in there? I read hybrid amplifier but I really don't know what that means operationally. We're all talking about, and buying, tubes but it would seem that since there is SS gear affecting the output Jason should be getting some huge plaudits for the final wonderful sound going to the headphones. I also have the Vali 2 and a Lyr 3 but don't really know what they are doing to make my sound.

Thank you all.

That is probably a Jason question but I will say I pick up on more tube sound with the Vali 3 than I did with the Lyr 3, but that may be more of an individual thing. I have much better headphones now.

 

[Paladin79]

*** will have a blast rolling 396A, 5670, 6CC42 etc in Vali 3 ....

Pay attention That is what I did yesterday from 9AM till 6PM. Soon it will be 12AU7’s, many of which you were kind enough to gift to me. My wife handled the tubes, I just listened to each tube.

 

[jonathan c]

That is probably a Jason question but I will say I pick up on more tube sound with the Vali 3 than I did with the Lyr 3, but that may be more of an individual thing. I have much better headphones now.

.... I agree (and you don't have to mark the 'cowendar'!!) as a Vali 3 owner and Lyr 3 'alumnus'. My guess: Vali 3 has a lower noise floor than Lyr 3 - benefit of external power supply (?).

 

[sam6550a]

Not to be pedantic, but being pedantic: it'd be more correct to say "the silent killer of vintage tube gear is filament voltage."

Modern gear is much more apt to be designed for current AC line voltages. We take high line into account (5.7V at 110 to 6.5V at 125 typical target), or in some cases have regulated DC heaters (Lyr 2, Mjolnir 2, Stjarna). I'm sure many other modern manufacturers do the same.

But yeah, for vintage gear, maybe an AC line regulator/autoformer with switcher thing.

Thanks! Many of the transformers that I use [from my stash] are older than you are.

 

[jonathan c]

Pay attention That is what I did yesterday from 9AM till 6PM. Soon it will be 12AU7’s, many of which you were kind enough to gift to me. My wife Finnegan handled the tubes, I just listened to each tube.

FTFY....[Reg. TM; © bcowen: 2021.]

 

[Ripper2860]

Pay attention That is what I did yesterday from 9AM till 6PM. Soon it will be 12AU7’s, many of which you were kind enough to gift to me. My wife handled the tubes, I just listened to each tube.

Nice. I can't get my wife to handle my tubes no matter how much I beg her.

 

[sam6550a]

Nice. I can't get my wife to handle my tubes no matter how much I beg her.

I wonder why---.

 

[StimpyWan]

Just this item that popped up in my news feeds: "NASA completed a thorough analysis of recent space weather activity and determined it posed no risk to the crew aboard the International Space Station and no additional precautionary measures are needed".

And I was kind'a hoping we would end up with a real life Fantastic 4...!

 

[Ableza]

Nice. I can't get my wife to handle my tubes no matter how much I beg her.

Get her some white cotton gloves, it might help.

 

[Orange5o]

If you wanna get nuts... someone put 10x WE396A's into a Folkvangr
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/schiit-folkvangr-impressions-thread.963929/post-18119174

 

[Paladin79]

If you wanna get nuts... someone put 10x WE396A's into a Folkvangr
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/schiit-folkvangr-impressions-thread.963929/post-18119174

Interesting and one of the first things I mentioned with the WE 396A was the sound stage. Oh and considering the Birdseye maple sides I made for your phono preamp? You are ahead of Cowen in number of builds.

 

[Adam Balm]

The 6550A is also a great sounding tube in hifi amplifiers.

And they're rugged as heck.
The GE's that is.