🎼 ..."got to be good looking sounding 'cause he's it's so hard to see hear" ... 🎵

..... and you could play: all year long! 😲🤪👍

From the "Schiit Vali 3: Impressions Thread":

• For sheer / total ability to deliver music, Vali 3 does not topple Icon Audi HP8 Signature, DNA Sonett2, Violectric HPA V281 ... and others. But, at its price -- with tube 'upgrade' -- Vali 3 is ridiculously close to what the aforesaid h/p/a achieve. • For that reason, I get a perverse (?)...

Back to Vali 3, for a moment .... .... the venerated and inexpensive RCA 'clear top' (and long plate) 12AU7 is a wonderful tube here! [I feel that the soundstaging betters that even of WE 396A / JW 2C51. 😲]

*** leave the tree up: decorate it by the holiday / occasion (Easter, Cinco de Mayo, July Fourth ... 🤷🏻‍♂️)

[Low-impedance headphones are covered (left); and high-impedance headphones are covered (right) at the 'mountain abode audio loft'.] 👍

[Low-impedance headphones are covered (Vali 3: with RCA 'cleartop' 12AU7 tube); and high-impedance headphones are covered (Beyerdynamic A20: 100 ohms) at the 'mountain abode audio loft'.] 👍

Agreed. And I use Audiophile Ninja XLR --> TRS adapters: ☑️👍

... plus the joy of rediscovery when they get some 'headtime' in the rotation ... 😲

That's headphone audio life! For me, the setup that sounds celestial one day can sound infernal on another day. When that happens .... workout #3 for the day .... 🏋️.

***** the spell 🪄cast by a good R2R DAC, higher output impedance tube h/p/a, with a great high impedance headphone !! 🤪

• .... times are different. For the larger (G-pad) Grados -- Statement Series (GS), Professional Series (PS) -- there are aftermarket aluminium gimbal / rod / block assemblies offered by Nyczaj Audio. • These are 'solid'!, built to last!, and look great! On GS3000x and on PS2000e ....

.... oops! I may need new 👀 !

... good point! I neglected to mention Auteur Classic's 'versatility' -- basically unfazed by any music genre: bring it on !!

I do have 6189s ... and have the 'yellow print, long plate' 12AU7 (as marked on tube). I have not tried 6189s yet. EDIT: Corrected for myopic error 🤦‍♂️ !!

.... Rolling Stones !! 🫰👍 🤣🤣

.... and if there were a copper Vali 3 .... ☑️

An insanely good combination -- Grado GS3000x / Schiit Vali 3 / Telefunken 'medical grade, red tip' 12AU7 via adapter: "It's alive!"

☑️: DenverW. For those looking for their first (only?) ZMF headphone, I recommend Auteur Classic. It is a headphone that exhibits, in a balanced & neutral way, the many virtues of ZMF design & sound.

😲🥃:

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/schiit-happened-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-improbable-start-up.701900/post-18142267

• The preposterous 'tubing' of Schiit Vali 3 with Telefunken 'medical grade, red tip' 12AU7 via adapter .... "It's alive!" [ .... ionospheric performance by Vali 3 in rendering ambience, spatial cues .... 😲 ]

*** give bitcowen credit for being innovative, being ahead of the regulators: the payment mode of the future is bitboard. 😜🥸🤪