Overkill Red

Hey man! I hope you are well. Hopefully you will be reunited with your gear one day.

Hey, yeah hopefully. That day seems so far away though.. Hope you're doing good!

The number of ‘normal’ routines that have become disrupted boggles my mind. I hope you are reunited with your gear soon as that will likely mean a return to routine for us all.

Where you moving?

Back to Singapore for work, got a job offer there. Kind of sad to leave the states but eh.. Life takes you where it wants to I guess.

I understand completely.

Losing sounds in one channel (especially the same channel) is not a common (or maybe even possible) DSP fail. I'd personally check my cables first.

Thanks for the tip, I'll do that over the weekend and get back to ya!

I used high heat oven silicone with great success. You might have some excess after you're done but it'll do the job.
For like new you can get tube base glue from JacMusic.

Are these the 2A3 sockets on Af? I have a similar issue too and opened and adjusted to mostly fix it

Gonna give that tube base glue from EML a shot. Thanks @m17xr2b

Oof, audits…

The opposite of fun.

right side up is always best :)

Oh shit brb I gotta turn my AF over real quick

That almost perfectly describes my grad school experience as well. Hope you thought you’d bomb more classes than you’d ace!

Check your WE396A, I had one go bad already and it started whining. Tube nervosa is awesome ;)

Strangely enough, the noise stopped happening. Will continue to monitor, but considering getting a new set just in case. (That's just an excuse to buy tubes)

Get some perforated suede universe pads if you don’t already. So good.

@cskippy am waiting on some Be2 pads, but I'll give the perforated suede a shot since your preferences are so similar to mine.

According to Zach, The Verite more than any of his headphones need good burn in...like 200-300 hours. YMMV as always.

You'll be fine. I'm still new around here as well. We'll learn together.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. The cheap plugs were from a cheap XLR cable I bought while waiting for my cables to get back from repair. I'll have proper ones on my main ICs for sure.

Isn't everything made in china

Hahaha... No-name Made-in-China 3Pin XLRs from dubious factory*

Have you met florida man yet?

Actually I bumped into him arguing with some teenagers outside a stone crab restaurant..

I mean... If the tube itself imploded it would probably be worse.

Nobody knows which would be worse

That's true. I ended up with RCA black wavy plate 2A3s, an Amperex 5AR4 and hopefully soon a WE396. Would love to try the Bendix 6385/2C51 but those seem impossible to find.

This is why I'm so excited about @dsavitsk's Ravenwood 3F amp. No tubes.

This whole tube thing is really a blessing and a curse. Thankfully reading SBAF has brought my overall nervosa levels down quite a bit.

@Boops and @Cradon (assuming he hasn't sold it)

@famish99 I wish I could haha! Always wanted to do that whole 'camp-out for BBQ thing'.

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Like the doc says. With medicine, one week; without medicine, seven days.

I did read recently that Zinc lozenges might actually reduce symptoms and duration somewhat. Put it under the "Studies Show..." heading, I can't remember the source.

Get well soon!