What's cool is the lesser known Teles can be had for little money and are excellent. I got some E280F gold pins years ago and the price seems to still be very reasonable. As for ECC82/ECC83 and S variants forget them and go NOS Tesla
What's cool is the lesser known Teles can be had for little money and are excellent. I got some E280F gold pins years ago and the price seems to still be very reasonable. As for ECC82/ECC83 and S variants forget them and go NOS Tesla
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A Schiit Saga passive/valve pre-amp.
It came with an OTK 6SN7 valve, which I know I like. I have a couple of others around to try at some point; JAN-Philips and Reflektor.
The valve-hybrid and passive outputs are usefully a little different sounding at first blush. The valve output being more immersive, the pure passive more exact and precise.
The User Manual is amusingly down to earth. file:///C:/Users/Pc%20world/Downloads/saga_manual_1_1.pdf
For example ...
2 Remote Light.
This extremely bright light was designed to irritate everyone who carps and moans about the brightness of our LEDs.
Just kidding.
It lights when you use the remote.
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Looking good!
By the way, OTK is just “quality assurance” in Russian :-)
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OMGosh yes, I just swapped in the Reflektor 6SN7 -- that "OTK" was just cheap stock crap, I suspect.
This is MUCH better! A lot closer to the precision of the passive stage but a lovely (false? ) sense of acoustic space. Yum.
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Oh no.
The Wife looked at the Saga --- and laughed.
It's the valve poking out the top of the otherwise normal box.
I must admit I find that sort of thing stupid looking, too.
And I haven't even told her the name of the company that makes it yet.
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Get some more shit - the Modi Multibit DAC jobbie Tom lent me is pretty nice.
Do so and no one can say you aren't full of Schitt. An admirable accolade.
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Lots of people say I'm full of shit already.
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