C’mon guys share this video we need to see Thomas eat that 🥩 😂😂😂

Thanks for the great video, so true and wonderfully entertaining at the same time. Many greetings from Cologne

Great info, thanks 👍🏻

Very well said about synergy. I’m a collector and to me, that’s one of the best parts of listening find that with different components. The price and reviews will pull most to this amp if you are fortunate to have the gear to find it. Great review!

Absolutely well said. Synergy is what makes a great system regardless of components and price.

Hard to believe that someone can talk so maturely about hifi. I don’t own this amp but echo with your thoughts in general about synergy and the way one has to make their system work together. You just earned a subscriber! Thanks for talking sense 👍👍

These dudes ain't lying.. even on my modest system I put a cyberpower system on my rig with sideways and a large car battery based power supply...and it made my system sound so sweet and holographic is was nuts

Cool. Just ordered an R300 yesterday - there is now a 5 week wait on Amazon ! Part of me is hoping this amp won’t sound better than my Elekit 8600S that cost me $3k with all the upgrades. But… with a 30 day return window from Amazon, I figure I need to give it a try. To me, the Elekit (that btw Herb Reichert raved about) sounds a bit lean to me… I probably like a more colored sound. Waiting for Thomas to post a video of his experiences upgrading the capacitors on the Willsenton - seems like a simple upgrade.

lol. Thanks for the early morning comedy! Great info! Smash that like button people! Smash it! 👊

Ta meilleur vidéo à date pour moi my friend. Very well made, interesting, truth telling, funny, the complete package! Keep it up! Viens d'essayer ( 1 mois)le DC block de Audiolab après avoir vu la video de Huff. J'avais pas l'argent pour un puritan. J'ai ramasser ma mâchoire du plancher. La composante la plus impressionnante à date considérant le prix! Le bruit a reculer de plusieurs pieds et le son est resté. Et J'avais déjà un Niagara. L'image centrale a triplé de grosseur! Mind blown ! Je vais pimper cette petite boite jusqu'à la stratosphère avec 5 modifications différentes . Ca va être malade! Anyway, enjoyed your video a lot!

It's a chain of components from source to speakers to room. Every link in the chain matters.

Well said! Keep the entertaining videos coming my friend!

The HT sound clip is amazing. Can we have more of these?

This was fantastic content Loic 👏 👌 This is the reason to have different gear to play with.

Sensitivity def a factor. I think Lii Audio drivers can be a bit forward in the midrange for some peeps so I can see why T&S found synergy with the forgiving little amp. Great vid as always

That's why Audio Note is the best ! Syergy is the key ! From the source up to the speakers all made to work togheter !

What timing...I received the Willsenton R300 last week and putting 150hr Burn-In and my unit is quite as a church mouse. I have a thread at AudioKarma in which I replaced 3 Caps due to Unnamed brand. Everything in my unit uses UCC, Nichicon and I will be swapping out the "3" Willsenton Films (.22/.33 630V) to Mundorf Supreme Silver/Oil. I would invest in a Tube Tester as they are not very expensive. Sound wise, with the Stock tubes it does SING very well. After 150hrs will be switching to NOS tubes for some Tube Rolling.

Hi Loic, You seriously have my interests peaked about the Willsenton 300B as does Thomas and Steve. I’ve got 95db sensitive 8ohm rated PureAudioProject Trio Classic Voxativ PiFe’s. ….wondering how they/and my room would be with the Willsenton. I also have the PSM 156 as I mentioned to you in my post on your feature on the 156. I’ll stay tuned to any future content you care to share ….and thank you!

What Ohm out put did you use out of the back of the 300 to Lii drivers? 4, 8, or 16? I got a 300 and a pair Liionidas - Fast 10 and W15

Love your prospective on audio gear when will the F18 be done breaking in? I would love to hear your comparisons between the F15, F18, and even the Fast 15. I've been looking at the F15 and F18 for what seems like decades now

That wagyu steak is a beautiful synergistic piece of equipment, you and Thomas should eat it soon regardless you achieve 3.5K subs or not. LOL

Have you tried 834 or 211 based SET amps with the F15 or F18? If yes, then how does the sound compare to using 300B based amps. Thanks in advance for your views.

Do you think it works well with Gustard R26+U18 and B&W 705 S3? Thanks

Loic - I just subscribed for a micro-bite of the steak you'll be buying for Thomas! Medium rare dude!

Great discussion BTW. Jay proved that the MOFI speakers can sound pretty bad in a $600k system and pretty good in a much lower priced system.

Wait, forget the 300b- I need to know more about Puritan Audio! Please tell me you’re working on covering that in an upcoming vid

Know I am really curious about that frankendac, what is it exacly is there any video about it?

I want it

WRT two rectifiers. My guess is yes, it is dual mono power supply. When I built my ultimate Steamer/DAC I went all out on power supply. The triode output has two completely separate power supplies. Each have fully separate transformers and their own rectifier followed by film (not electrolytic) caps and chokes. I stopped short of using multiple power cords but do use 8 gauge wire. BTW, I think that the life may be slowly sucking out of my rectifiers so thanks for this video. I need to buy some new 5u4g tubes to benchmark the performance. Any thoughts on where to get decent ones at a reasonable price?

Great video, even if I'm hoping you're aren't done goofing around now, that would be pity! One rectifier per channel, the reply you got is correct, it's not automatically an indication that an amp is dual mono. Researching pics of the internals on the web it doesn't look to be the case. It already seems incredibly inexpensive as it is. As to system synergy, I agree wholeheartedly with all you said. What I find incredibly difficult is synergy is impossible to predict unless one buys a complete system from a brand that specializes in designing synergistic systems (e.g. Spectral/MIT were among the first audiophile brands in the eighties that practically gave customers no choice, and one would still need to find synergistic speakers to go with it), versus what 99% of audiophiles appear to do, which I refer to as mixing and matching. We (my audiophile buddies and I) have recently struggled pairing Decware's 25th Anniversary amp with, so far, five different speakers. Needless to say, at 2.3 Watts everyone expected high-sensitivity speakers to fare best (we tried 96dB spherical horns, 94dB backloaded horns, 96dB dynamic speakers from a Swiss brand that Steve Deckert said look like the smartest design he's ever seen, 85dB bookshelf speakers by a legendary German designer who specializes in impulse, i.e. phase and time, optimized designs, and my own 91.5dB speakers that follow the same path). Instead, it turns out "Little Ms D", as one of my audiophile buddies calls the amp now (a prima donna?), likes, at least that's my best guess at this point, loudspeakers whose electrical phase show the least anomalies. But again, that's an educated guess that comes after the fact (trying in person). The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Thanks Loki appreciate the Video - I agree about Synergy - You'll know when its 🔥 - If you get time give Alice in chains a 👂 their MTV unplugged cd is the chronic ! 😆

please a review of the Puritan PSM 156/136 is it worth the money

Nice timing. My 300B is on it's way. Shipped out of China on 1/16. $1281.40 with shipping. Now the search for a speaker best suited for my new amp. Any suggestions that won't break the bank? Very good review. Thanks.Also something to note. Theres a review of the 300-B by a customer on China Hi-Fi. He makes several suggestions regarding tube rolling the 300B.

I would propose that the idea of synergy can also be thought of as *everything matters*. Everything in audio starts with power supply. You have my attention with the Puritan PSM156; but at $2300 it is a lot more money than I can think about. I have a Pine Tree Audio Iso-Power ($250) with one of their Iso-Braid AC cords ($85 for 5'), and the same cords for my AkitikA PR-102 and GT-104, and the dual voltage linear power supply that is for my Node 2i and Geshelli J2 AKM DAC, and Audiolab CDT600 transport. Playing through my MLTL-11 or MLTL-6 speakers - is like nothing else I have heard in 40+ years. The Pearl Acoustics Sibelius is a mass loaded transmission line, and I think that this is a big part of it. My MLTL-6 speakers use a 6" paper cone woofer (13.8 gram Mms) and they are essentially flat to 32Hz in my room. My working theory is that TL have lower air pressure in the cabinet, and so they work more like open baffle in the midrange.

Compared to the Galion 120?

Have you experienced a Leak Stereo 20 playing jazz? Has to be the best all time jazz amp.

Hello. I hope that you haven’t already answered the question I am going to ask in this or another one of your videos. If you did, sorry for asking again. You didn’t say too much in this video about the sound of the Willsenton R300 matched with the Lii Audio F15. Here’s what you did say: “Used the Willsenton R300 with this (I think you were referring to the Lii Audio F15 in open baffles), I get it, I really do. Everything he said in his video, true. … This thing is one performing little romantic integrated amplifier.” It sounds like you liked it, but could you give a little bit more information about how this pairing sounds? I recall reading in a comment somewhere, by someone, that this pairing wasn’t ideal. What are your thoughts? I have a clone of a Caintuck Audio Lii15 baffle and am considering pairing it with this amp one day. I really appreciate a lush, warm, dimensional midrange with decay, as well as good dynamic energy and percussive precision (drums, strings, etc.). Super detailed, stringent highs and thumping bass are not my priorities. I would be interested in whether you think this pairing would match my audio preferences. Thanks in advance!👍

I'm considering this amp or a primaluna prologue 5 using 94db speakers in a smallish room. Which amp should I go for? Both similar in cost.

You talked about the better performance of your friends speaker after moving the speaker in the room. The bass was also better. Did you listen to your friends amp at this speaker position? The better bass could be caused by different room acoustics, room modes.

Is it not a description of any/every tube? That it is always a slippery road down. (I don't know I am a solid state guy) I have heard PS audio Paul at one point say he swap in new tubes once a year. Just because they degrading slowly and it is not noticable over time and when swapped the jump up to new state is noticeably. But apparently tubes bring something to the table that it's worth inserting slowly sound degrading components in the system. It is not only degrading by some I think it were Paul again that said. That new tubes start it's lifespan sound quality wise not at their full potential and during "burn in"/usage they get after x hours to it's peak performance and then it from there goes downhill. In other words if I understand it correctly they are in a constant flux. Not only that when you're very serious and optimize them so they are matched left and right tube. By buying the service that someone is measuring and matching them for you. So all that said. I wonder that the tubes insert something that solid state can't do, otherwise there should be no reason for their existence 🤣 ? One day maybe I may get the tube experience in my system.. Thanks for your entertaining video!🙏

If you want to know the truth about the Wilsenton R300, watch this series of videos from Skunkie Designs. Her work on the R8 caused Wilsenton to change their R8 amps and shr has a video series on how to do the modifications yourself if you have an older one. kzfaq.info/sun/PLtEhh3UpOsiDd4EZsf_AL3ovGoUlNh8Py

Why is this video dark and shadowy like a horror movie?

Before swooning about the R300 I suggest you view a well known YBer who dissected this amp The design was woeful How it could be well reviewed is beyond me, but it has been. The two rectifiers are part of that poor design that has fooled many people

You didn’t mention that the 8 watt amp doesn’t deliver 8 watts, or that the soft start circuit is really delay circuit and adds distortion, or that the rectifier circuit isn’t designed correctly, has a history of killing the rectifier tubes, or that the rectifier circuit has been redesigned at least 3 times by the manufacturer to “fix” the rectifier circuit so it doesn’t kill the rectifier tubes and still adds distortion and still kills the rectifier tubes.

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