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RE: Feliks Elise Adding to my own post

Posted by Mechans (A) on December 25, 2017 at 15:16:27

In Reply to: RE: Feliks Elise Adding to my own post posted by connieflyer on December 25, 2017 at 09:12:05:

When I finally decided to buy the Elise I asked Lukasz if I could upgrade the amp with better caps and what ever else I could improve in the component end of things. At that point I thought the Elise was $850 the price I had actually just seen a month before. I was still able to get the Singlepower to work with some coaxing. In addition I sat on my hands getting by on my "Project Ember". He told me that was what the Euforia was, the "same" amp with a better transformer/s and upgraded components and some changes applied to both amps.
When I asked him to give me the price on both to consider which I would go with, I was not happy to say the least. I can tell you more in a PM but I was pissed. I had been enquiring on and off and I was never told of the huge price increase I almost didn't buy it.
You should know me by now I don't generally approve of adapters because being a semi-purist, you really don't know if the adapter is made with good materials nor do you know if its really engineered correctly. It also put more stuff in the signal path. Why don't the manufacturers see what's going on at hed-fi or any such forum and build amps to take the better sounding tubes? That said I use an adapter on my ember to take 6SN7s I don't think the SS output tage does that amp any favors and the silly frakenadapter monstrosities some people make are almost comical in my mind.
All that said I might be lured into trying adapters some day. While answer email and writing this I listened to a couple of symphonies. ( I am not a classical music guy but like it some days.) I would rather listen to speakers but I now live in an apartment and I prefer a decent volume.
Which headphone do you think would sound best with my Elise. I like a big soundscape detail prominent midrange and don't care for heavy overloaded bass. I may just upgrade this amp it sounds good but I want more. I can afford it but I never really considered headphones as my main system until recently.
The little changes I have made have helped, I think I have GEC 6AS7Gs but have to search. I have so many good tubes that I saw little reason to gop with the fancy Chinese drivers he made an accommodation for me in that regard. Honestly the Russian Tung Sols were not as bad as I thought they would be. I rolled the Sylv. WGTS and replaced them with a rare bird a near entirely chrome domed pair of the civilian Ws that were simply called Sylvania GTs from the early 40s, these are not the common "bad boy" GT .
Thanks for your advice.

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