You shouldn't listen to valves/tubes.
It's long been known they are rubbish.
In many respects they are.
But you have to sit there and listen.
Then, somehow, all the faults seem acceptable.
It is curious, I agree, but for me it does seem to be true.
Just spent a month on post #1 of this...
I don't personally think the Auditorium's are even vaguely close to the Rafaello based on Munich 2023 show conditions.
I wouldn't swap my souped up Duettas for the Auditorium. However, I would swap my Duettas for the Raffaello plus a lot of cash, though not enough to reach the asking price...
I spent a very long time being really fond of the Sylvania VT-52 when I bought one of the first Big 7 DACs from Lampizator.
With the internals of that DAC easily thrown away due to the use of a particularly shitty set of cheap toroids and an excellent re-build by some really good hardware...
I went for Path resistors in my Apogee crossovers a good few years ago now.
The casings on all of them now look amazing (non-labelled area).
Copper does that as it ages. Turns all sorts of great colours you don't usually see mixed together elsewhere.
HMS Victory had a copper hull upgrade...
Hm. Always thought your hearing was a bit dodgy, Christoph;)
EML AD1 is the best out of the EML or KR tubes I have tried. Including the KR 242. I prefer their PX25. I rarely use the EML AD1 because there are quite a few I prefer, really, with the benefit of hindsight.
But when I go back to it...
Look up the heater and pin specs and buy a voltmeter to run across the two heater pins.
Adaptors make it really easy to raise the tube to do this if your Lampi recesses the base.
Generally running on the heater specs does seem to produce the best results, funnily enough.
When you get into it...
Thanks.
The UST projector is a pure pleasure. No need for privacy on it. Whilst the picture in my shot does it no favours, I have it ultra dialed in now. Absolute to the millimetre precision is where it is at here. It's performing way better as the quality of the source i.e. the internet is...
Love to see a number of lid off shots of the Poseidon.
Why?
Just to see the design and component quality used and ensure it remains stable over time.
But mainly so that buyer's actually know with certainty what they are going to get if they go for it.
Whilst cheap Chinese tubes can to some...