TADAC owners - which best 12au7 tubes?


TADAC owners. Which 12au7 tubes have you /tried used to replace the stock chinese tubes?
What has been your listening experience with the ones used?
Which tube do you find gives the best performance?
Your comments are appreciated!
myraj

Showing 1 response by drewportland

I bought a TADAC from a fellow gonner and he had an extra set of Electro Harmonics as well as the stock tubes. Both sounded OK, but I figured things could sound better. I just put in a pair of the French Mazda tubes and I am very impressed (scratch that- extremely impressed) with what they have done for this DAC. Everything has improved after putting in the Mazda tubes- soundstage, macro and micro dynamics as well as being more musical.

Before I was getting some distortion in the vocals on certain recordings I believe the term is called microphony.Please forgive me if I got the term wrong this is my first go at tube gear. Anyway the distortion is now eliminated after putting in the Mazdas.