An upgrade to my Little Dot MKII
I made the decision to upgrade my modest Little Dot MKII Tube Amplifier this past week and it just got here yesterday. This is a used piece of gear, it's the first generation Woo Audio WA6. I wanted to go with Silver as it would match my Solid State Burson Conductor 3 Performance Headphone Amp/DAC/Pre-Amp, as well as the Schiit Lokius I also picked up recently. I wound up with Black; it was in the best condition of those I saw available, it was priced better and it came from an audio dealership with a brick & mortar store which displayed a working telephone number and an A+ rating with the BBB so I knew that I was probably safe in dealing with the gentleman. The Lokius is brand new. What I've learned is that I am going to have to do some figuring out how to deal with all of this new stuff, including how to get it all onto my 6 foot desk along with my lamp and modem. Apparently the Lokius has to be connected between Amp and DAC, so it would fit in between...
Jun 30, 2022
Amp is a Schiit Vali 2 running either a 6SN7 or 6F8G (pictured). This one is a National Union round plate (I've already bought several times as many tubes as I originally thought I would when I got the amp - eBay's almost as dangerous as Massdrop is).
Turntable is my resurrected Technics SL-1300 with a Frankenstein'ed Nagaoka cartridge (MP-110 body, MP-200 stylus). It feeds a Schiit Mani phono pre. This and a DragonFly Black are hooked up to a Yamaha RX-V671 AV receiver, with a line out going to the Vali 2 (so I'm using the receiver as an input switch for the Vali 2 as well as driving speakers).