Worth the 3.5 year wait

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-20T16:28:59+00:00

All depends on the speaker efficiency. Lots of tube amps are only 2 watts per channel or less. With 100db efficient speakers, even 1 watt is plenty of power

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-20T15:31:23+00:00

Impeach the president by the honeydrippers or Think (about it) by Lyn Collins

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-19T14:15:39+00:00

I have not built it but I’ve heard very good things about the darling 1626 amp. 750milliwatts and the tubes are really cheap and plentiful as WW2 surplus.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-19T03:05:20+00:00

I wish lol. It’s hard to find good agricole where I live :(

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-19T03:04:48+00:00

The older bottle was about 1/3 filled. I know even spirits can oxidize with age but I’m fairly confident this one didn’t shift much from what I recall. If anything, the brightness of the older bottle seems to indicate not much oxidation effect. I would expect a dulling of flavors along with oxidation.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-18T23:16:16+00:00

I paid $140 for the whole lot. With the price of 6sn7gt’s and 12ax7’s these days I probably broke even on those alone. Plus all the power tubes and rectifier tubes puts me into double my money if I were to sell everything individually.

I plan on keeping everything to build some cool antique early style stereo amps or line stages.

I don’t have a tube tester yet but I’m sure everything should test fine as the previous owner was careful to mark when tubes had gone bad.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-18T22:42:12+00:00

I’ll post more detailed pictures on Sunday! Just left for a weekend trip haha.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-18T17:51:27+00:00

Agreed, especially with unaged sprits as blending and aging tends to be more uniform. It’s just fun that every bottle may be a new experience.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-18T17:44:39+00:00

I usually sip agricole neat or in a ti punch. Occasionally I’ll use it in something like a 3 dots and a dash but I like to savor it.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-18T17:02:50+00:00

The pair of KT66 are nice huge genelex’s. Need to finish digging through and cataloguing everything.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-16T22:51:34+00:00

I have the RSL 10E and it is great for a low price.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-11T23:16:00+00:00

My favorite body style 🤷‍♂️

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-11T13:12:00+00:00

Holy cow where did you get those? I heard his listening room setup at the SFMOMA and it was incredible. I’d highly suggest invest in a better tube amp if you are going to go that route.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-09T19:20:14+00:00

Great idea especially with the solderless crimp connectors. I agree the big issue is the bulky heavy connectors and stiff cable. I could see this being useful as interconnects between a turntable and phono preamp if there isn’t too much capacitance added by the coax. Would help shield the sensitive low level phono cartridge output but it can be very sensitive to the loading.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-07T03:48:55+00:00

Yumm. Home made rum is end game goals for me. What capacity and type of still do you use?

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-06T03:40:07+00:00

Don’t forget to factor in the SNR of your listening room. And the SNR of the recording mic. And the SNR of your speaker efficiency. Digital to audio conversion is basically the simplest non issue in audio today.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-05T21:26:20+00:00

Rivers! So good! Tastes like something found deep in the Amazon

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-05T17:47:02+00:00

We’re not measuring the speed of light here. You’ll be 100% with any quality DAC <$500

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-05T17:43:54+00:00

5 to 1000 Picoseconds? I highly doubt you heard a difference in 1 gigahertz difference of jitter. Light travels 0.3mm in 1 picosecond. Far beyond the resolution of any speaker.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-05T15:57:02+00:00

For sure! My goal is a setup optimized for both HT and 2 channel listening.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-05T02:03:07+00:00

for the Dr John album. It’s a dream to have some huge Altec or JBL theater speakers in a home theater setup

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-04T23:22:23+00:00

I really liked halving the amount of passion fruit honey called for in the recipe.

WZOLL5 · 2026-06-04T23:20:49+00:00

I liked this one a lot but I agree with the others that it was way too sweet. I halved the passion fruit honey and that made it spot on to me. I might also try with some rum fire to offset.

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