Feliks-Audio Elise Tube Amp Review (NOT)

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  1. Walderstorn

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    He´s so busy and focused studying for the finals that he didn't study wth he was buying.
     
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    I've got this and a pre built well made Bottle head Crack and speed ball sitting on my baskets. Really can't decide between them!

    I mostly look for amps that go well with the HD650's mids, give vocals a nice emotional tone with some bloom. Slam is also important with good smooth response throughout Any advice?
     
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    Interestingly, the buyer of the Christmas tree amp doesn't list it on his sprawling HF profile - though he does list a Liquid Carbon. Wonder what happened, did the poor, abused thing crap out?
     
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    I believe he sold it and bought a feliks audio Euforia. I Would love to hear some reviews of the Euforia from you guys at SBAF, IF anyone could get their hands on one :)
     
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    Did someone had a chance to listen to theirs new feliks audio Euforia? Cheers
     
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    Don’t know what happened to Feliks Audio after London canjas, but they just replaced their prices to a new WTF PREMIUM GRADE.

    ELISE IS NOW 1550$

    That’s really disappointing
     
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    Anybody else get the vibe that the Feliks Audio folks, in an effort to raise margins, make "minor" upgrades while hitting the customer with a huge price increase? This has happened twice with this amp...
     
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    The question is whether the customers accept it or not. Feliks seems to be very confident. Maybe the first raise turned out to be more lucrative than they had expected. My guess is that now they test the market. If the number of purchases plunges, they can do great percentage "sales"...
    Anyway, they aren't the first... Insane overpricing is very common in this hobby...
     
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    Feliks Audio is feeling overly confident because of all the online blow jobs they've received. All too easy and common to take advantage of this and raise your prices with new products and revisions.
     
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    After owning the 2016 Elise and being very underwhelmed by the sound, I don't like any of it. My BHC sounds better without SB. I think people are probably getting screwed here.
     
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    I usual don't do it but I second this. If someone is unaware why hands said it like this just try to read some of the posts, on head-fi, about this amp. From the "can't exist nothing better", to "perfect", to "stellar" and to "it even sleeps with my wife", obviously the last one is just because most of them need one, badly. It's just one of those (several) poisonous threads...on the other hand you will feel blessed by seeing some audio Christmas trees and it's like a lesson about "how not to be dumb".

    It's a very capable amp but nowhere in the level that they wish/pray/beg it would be, much less for 1550.
     

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