This am I was listening to the HEDDs with the Jot…Superb.
This pm I am listening with the Clears with the Lyr 3…another Superb…
I like these cans better with these amps…Clears with the Lyr3, Hedds with the Jot…go figure…
This is why keep both of these amps and cans…both give me great pleasure listening to these cans…
Alex
This morning listening to Joni Mitchell, Dreamland, Amelia the orchestral version…with the HEDDs…absolutley wonderful airy natural presentation…very realistic, great depth of imaging as well as lateral…pure musical enjoyment…
Ah! life is good…
Hi Alex! Knowing you had at some point ( or still have) a Valhalla 2 and love your Lyr 3, what are the benefit and loss of choosing one or the other?
So far to be used with HD650 and SDR mod HD800.
What V2 can offer that L3 don’t and vice versa?
Thanks!!!
Edit!!! If it is not too much trouble … could you add the Jotunheim to this comparison as well? 
Hi…on the road be back fri and will elaborate more.
Valhalla is a good amp for higher impedance headphones…the 650s and sends are a wonderful pairing. My 600s on it were right up there with bh crack.
Quickly…lyr 3 has a lot of power as the jot. If you want to use balanced cables the jot has this capability the lyr 3 and v2 do not…
Will add more on fri…
Alex
Thanks!!!
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Balanced is not important and power I know the three of them have enough for both Senn. I’ll check back on Friday.
Stay safe.
Home!!
Well the benefit of having a V2 is its a grear piring for the higher impedance headphones…IMO better than with the Lyr 3 or the Jot. The downside is its not as good with low Z cans…bass is not as nice or controlled.
IMO its more of a choice between the Jot and Lyr 3. The choice here is the Jot is a differential hybrid amp full balanced…the sound sig is not a transparent IMO over the hybrid Lyr 3…which for me is just a tad nicer overall in its crsipness and that removed veil thing we talk about.
I have days when one is better to listen with than the other, but keep changing between the Jot and Lyr3.
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I sold the V2 only because my BH Crack and BH Mainline and TUBA are amps I prefer for high Z cans. Its to me just that much more euphonic …
Alex
Awesome!! Thanks!!!
I’m set long ago for Lyr, just not the right moment due to this pandemic chaos that took all my time for desktop rig.
My question was because I had the chance to buy a very good condition Valhalla 2, but honestly… It was more an impulse due to the price/opportunity than a real need. Then it become “one more stuff” going around the house without use and collecting dust or back to the box.
Thanks !!!
I felt the same way about having several amps that only worked “very” well with a certain type of headphone…but even though having one around (maybe 2!!) is still important to me.
The Lyr 3 is a really great all around amp that has gobs of power and really does work/sound very, very good.
And you can play the NOS tube game with just one tube!! instead of 2., 3 or 4 tubes much more cost.
Alex
Congrats @jthvac enjoy!!! 
Very nice classic/vintage Naim piece.
All that’s left of my previous audiophile life pre-kids.
The beauty of the modius is it has balanced and SE outputs, so the balanced are connected to the Naim, and the SE are connected to the Lyr.
So I picked one of these up today. So far I’m enjoying it quite a bit.
It still maintains detail while adding some of that euphonic tube magic. The stage is nice and wide, and imaging and separation are very good.
The thing I’m struggling with is not swapping out the stock tube yet. 
Give it a good 20 or so hour run. Should have an idea where it is heading by then. Then roll, baby, roll. Or don’t.
Im actually quite curious to try this amp just to hear what the fuss is about.
It’s definitely an exercise in patience. I’ve 5 tubes ready to go! One of them being a Sophia Electric.
I’ll do my best, but it’s a very sweet little amp. 
congratulations Christopher!
really curious what you think!
Post your findings re NOS vs the new production Sophia if you please. I’m always interested in how people find new production tubes to sound.
Thanks @MartinTransporter!
Will do @perogie. 
Just got a PSVANE MKII in yesterday. I was running a Westinghouse Reliatron 6SN7GTB before this and was very pleased once the tube opened up. This new tube blows it out of the water out of the box. Can’t wait for it to bloom.
@jthvac I’m curious about whether you will have the same experience as me, with my Treasure Globe 6SN7-SE, which isn’t Psvane, but from what I’ve read, it shares some common characteristics.
I almost sent mine back because there was a terrible glare in the upper mids, but after several hours of pink noise, it just disappeared. I don’t believe it was brain burn-in, because the glare had previously been bad enough to give me a headache, and after the pink noise, I was looking for it and couldn’t find it. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m assuming that brain burn-in is similar to where I can listen to a horribly re-mastered CD when I’m listening to the music, but I have to turn the music off when I’m “critically” listening to the sound. Depending on what I’m focusing on, I can do both, proving to me that brain burn-in can be overridden.
Anyway, the Globe now sounds great, but to be honest, I also liked the Lyr using the JJ tube! I know that memory is a terrible tool for measuring audio improvement, but I found some notes I’d made when I’d previously been listening to my son’s HD-6XX (where I found the bass was not taut enough, and the treble was very hazy), and when I tried the HD-6XX on the Globe, I immediately noticed that the things I hated about it were all gone. I can hear rhythmic bass lines now, and the treble is now clearer, but without being bright.
@pennstac you’ve had your Globe for a while now, how are you finding it? You mentioned that it made a clear modest improvement when you first started using it, so has it gotten better?
