Ah yes, I remember now that you got yours ‘at a favourable price’ from Thanatos. Will you and Mr T be getting together at some point to compare the older Mrs Walnut (my name for the Envy I borrowed from Thomas) with the ‘new and improved’ Mrs Walnut AE? That would indeed be an interesting little...

Totally agree with you that you should never judge the headphone, it’s the system chain that is playing the music. Alex will never and has no need to ‘tremble’; the ribbon drivers are not inferior to any other technology. It’s simply a question of preferences and what fires your emotional...

Ok, I accept that. But you are accepting, because of this one review, that the Envy needs 450hrs burn-in? What do your own ears and experience tell you personally? Or are you just accepting what he says as the the truth for all of us?

So, are you saying, because of this person’s comments, that all of the other people who shared “WOW” with us the first time they heard the Envy are completely wrong? That it’s not possible to hear “WOW” moments until 450hrs have passed? Just asking.

I’ve said it before but I’ll mention it again. Using the WE300B’s in standby mode invalidates the 5-year warranty according to the small print in the WE manual.

There’s more on the Raal 1995 sponsor thread.

Me too, 70 in April.

To whom are you addressing your repeated barrage of questions please?

Music doesn’t start playing on mine when I plug in an IEM. It starts when I press the play button. Maybe you’re a fake person sent here by the gods of annoyance?

Mine shows a charging symbol and % charge for a few seconds and then the screen goes dark. I suggest you get something more to your liking.

Best solution for SR-1a/b and CA-1a for sure but I doubt 😕 that’s true for Immanis once you experience the new 300B and EL34 amps from Solaja. I doubt very much that the new amps will sound worse than the VM-1a, and there’s little point releasing them if they’re not ‘better’ than the VM-1a. Time...

I own the HSA-1b and the SR-1a and CA-1a Raal phones. I had an Envy PE at home for 2 weeks and was able to compare with the HSA. With the HSA and Raal phones the Accurate Sounds convolution filters are a ‘must have’ for me and my ears, otherwise some recordings e.g. orchestral music with strong...

Mine shows what song is playing from which album. It doesn’t show how many tracks are left but that’s not something I care about and it’s to see if you page down.

That’s a great list but I think you’ll find The Beatles preceded all of them by quite a few years and without The Beatles the world of modern music would have been very different. Except of course for the lots of Classical music bit which preceded The Beatles by a couple of years.

Haven’t got around to the Gentle Giant one’s yet but I will do this week. 👍🏼

I’ll ask him when/if I meet him. Should I wear a flak jacket? I happen to think Revolver sounds great. And I agree with Aperture about the Steven Wilson remasters of Jethro Tull.

Kai do you think that’s true of the remasters done by Steven Wilson or those of the Beatles done by Giles Martin?

I don’t recall there being a general consensus that Aperio is “leagues above” other TOTL offerings, and if it was a comment made under show conditions then the usual caveats apply. Aperio is a complete system and though it might well be excellent it is still limited within its own capability...

Doug, one thing to consider now you’ve cancelled Armageddon, is at some point to get a clean impactful SS amp of lower price and then use the pre-amp function of the Envy to add a little ‘flavour’. I tried this when I borrowed the Envy for a couple of weeks as a pre-amp into my Raal HSA-1b and I...

Contact Danny at Raal-Requisite, Ventura Ca, for all info for customers in the US. It’s already released but there is currently a customer backlog.

Ah ok, that’s the HiFi deluxe get together at the Marriot hotel. Alex said they’d have a quiet room there with a frankly obscene list of amplifiers. Immanis is good enough to allow the different characteristics of each amp to shine. You should get some good feedback from this.

Oh ok. Are they in a quiet room or out in the main hall?

How can there be any impressions? Nobody owns one because it isn’t on-sale yet. Look at Solaja’s web-site, the VM-1a is still available for sale but the new amps aren’t listed yet.

But sir we were only disagreeably agreeing to disagree for a few minutes and then we smiled and 👍🏼. No need to increase the size of the mole hill.

Not really; Immanis doesn’t need protecting from anything or anyone. It is what it is and people can like it or dislike it; makes no difference to me. I just got caught up in reading about HE-1 needs an external DAC or Stealth out of Chord Hugo TT2 etc and I over-reacted. Blood pressure levels...