I just googled Little Dot amps.
I actually want the Mark VIII little dot. It’s out of the price range of Darkvoice or the Felix audio but apparently sounds pretty cool from some stuff I read
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so the Echo by Feliks audio is out?
is it cause it is build in europe?
Huh from the Outside the Echo looks like a fancier (and possibly better sounding) LD MKIII. For 450 bucks it seems like a pretty good step up from just the MKIII.
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It’s pretty nice, feliks stuff sounds very refined
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with shipping to germany and taxes … the Little Dot MK III would be over the 500 Euro mark for me.
the Echo is available for 499€ with free shipping directly at the polish Feliks Audio page
or even more intersting for me: there is a german distribution at a well known shop … same price, no shipping
I like the looks, the reviews are good or even waving … hard to beat for me at the moment
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If I didn’t get the Tuba, I’d have gotten a feliks-audio amp. I really like the look of their stuff, they’re beautiful.
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has the Tuba changed meanwhile?
Have you burned it in, like keep it on amping for 2 days or so?
You mean, has my opinion dipped from the original unexpectedly ecstatic first impressions? Nah, I love it. Probably won’t ever buy another amp ever. Unless, I get something that needs more power than it can provide, but that’s a pretty low chance.
I haven’t left it on, but I’ve used it quite a bit already within the last couple days, even for hours long gaming sessions.
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cool - no this was not my intention at all - I was sure, it won´t get worse. Just curious what would change, if so.
Cool you don´t leave it running for ever. I would keep it the same. It burns in with time.
Yeah, I’m not really a fan of the idea of letting stuff burn in without being there. If burn in is a thing, and people agree it is with tube amps, I’m along for the ride.
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exactly! and my wife would kill me. She is paranoid, about these things.
What, like would it explode or catch fire if you left it on alone? I can understand that, I think I’d be paranoid too. ^^
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of course it´s a thing, heating it up a while before you listen…
so you are a casual gamer? - me too. Prefer to chill in a campain and ditch online battles with young screaming kids
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The only competitive games I enjoyed were Titanfall and Splatoon, and Splatoon doesn’t even have voice chat. I was currently playing through The Surge, a Dark Souls-type game and Resident Evil Code Veronica. I’d consider myself casual in the sense of being noncompetitive, but hardcore in terms of all the different kinds of games I enjoy.
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oh the last games are years back
sold my PS3/4 maybe 2 years ago - was more into grand turismo with all periphery stuff and worked on squeeking out the best times and the uncharted was fun
Cod and Crysis over many years on PC
Grand Theft Auto 3,Vice, 4…
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Found this one by William Murdock
Wow if the LD is so expensive due to shipping and taxes, you’d be crazy not to go with the Echo then, besides it’s alot nicer looking too. Love the Wood Sides, also one of the few tube amps that run a toroid and keeps the round look in the design (as opposed to making it a square box around it).
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Tis what they all say, Tuba is a really good amp though from the looks of it.
Oh also, it’s super duper unlikely the thing would catch fire, likeliest thing to happen is that if there is an over voltage, the transformer might burn insulation and short, and that tends to blow the fuse quickly. Less likely is that a resistor suddenly fails, but usually when a resistor gets old they tend to resist more (If Carbon) or open (If Wire-wound), but a brand new amp isn’t likely to do that though. Even less likely is that the filament inside the tubes burns out but usually that just removes that tube from the circuit since most heaters are done in Parallel. And Even super less likely is that the Plate starts to turn red, but again, super unlikely given the specs of the amp (Voltage could never get high enough without the amp being damaged somewhere else first). I leave my DV on when I get new tubes, go to school and stuff, and come back, and it tends to not set the house on-fire, sounding great afterwards, usually play some white noise/pink noise for the heck of it.
(Found a neat discussion here on resistors and age Redirecting to Google Groups)
If you are paranoid about it catching fire while you aren’t staring at it, maybe buy an Over voltage Protection Circuit, my Furman has one set to 137V and it actually works, since I had an over voltage just yesterday and it instantly shut off everything and wouldn’t let me turn it on until the voltage went down. Great way to protect your amps, especially since most tube amps don’t have this type of circuit, although you can probably buy a cheaper one without so many outputs, just as many as the amount of gear you want to protect.
Oh also also, yeah:
Tubes tend to work their best after being properly heated for about 30-60 minutes in, even if their designation gives it a fast filament turn-on time, and even transistors in some cases if the heat-sinks are a bit over-sized, and theoretically even the transformer starts to work better too since it kinda evens out after an hour, but not fully since AC is still in it and if it evened out it probably wouldn’t work as a transformer if AC would stop alternating, but it evens out more compared to the initial turn-on and inrush current, and at least if the transformer hums, it tends to hum less.
Remember reading something of the like on the Bottlehead Forums about larger transformers taking longer to perform their best due to this, but don’t quote me on that though.
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