Ghosthouse nailed it. Audiophiles love to talk about expectation bias. Which is largely fake, by the way. Hardly anyone ever talks about recency bias, which seems to be hard-wired into our brains. You made a change, its not perfect, you assume all the imperfections are due to the change. It is equally likely to have had imperfections there all along, only you had a combination of components and setup that had kept you in the dark, so to speak. The new component in this case is not creating them but merely revealing them. What ghosthouse said is correct.
That's what I think. Give it time. Tube rolling is not for fine tuning magic, not patching over shortcomings.
That's what I think. Give it time. Tube rolling is not for fine tuning magic, not patching over shortcomings.