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| CEC Belt Drive CD Transports vs Jay's Audio CD Transports Hi @no_regrets , If you want really low budget transport and very high value for money you can go for SHANLING ET3 or SMSL PL200. | |
| 300B, 2A3 experiances wanted I upgraded my 300b SET amplifier. I replaced 6f6g Torvac driver tube to 6v6 Psvane. 6f6 worked with idle current 26ma. 6v6 withe the same cathode resistors gave 24ma. I changed cathode resistor to get 29ma. In result much better bass control and d... | |
| Do You Have to Play a Component to Warm it Up? Hi @fleschler Did you compared your cdt3 vs et3 transport head to head? If yes, what is a difference in sound? I always leave my cd transport and DAC on. My 300b SET starts sound better after 1 hour and continue to improve. After 2 hours the s... | |
| PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread Hi @alightronics , I just ordered a pair of PSVANE 6V6GT on Aliexpress. I didn't find any information or reviews of these tubes. Do you have any information about PSVANE 6V6GT? Regards, Alex. | |
| 300B, 2A3 experiances wanted There are a lot of vintage 6v6 tubes. Which of them sound good? The new 6v6 I see Psvane. I have Pasvane 5u4g and 12ax7 and they do sound good. On the level of good (but not the best) vintage tubes. There is a new JJ 6v6. But I have a JJ ECC803S... | |
| 300B, 2A3 experiances wanted Hi @kmtang The link you gave doesn't point to any 6v6 tubes. Which 6v6 did you mean? | |
| 300B, 2A3 experiances wanted I think I'll try another driver for 300B - 6v6 instead of 6f6. I already bought new cathode resistors to adjust the circuit for 6v6. The question is what 6v6 can you recommend? Which NOS and modern 6v6 do sound best? | |
| 300B, 2A3 experiances wanted Hi @bruce19 My amp is DIY. The set of tubes was always the same 6sn7, 6f6 in triode and 300B. But for 15 years I did different upgrades of this amplifier. A year ago I added IT between driver and output. Then I made a separate PS for the driver... | |
| New, Very Interesting CD Transport Hi @tweak1 If ET-3 plays DSD files from the USB memory - both USB and I2S output work. If ET-3 plays CD and upsamples it do DSD you can use I2S output only. If ET-3 plays CD and upsamples it do PCM you can use I2S or Coaxial outputs. | |
| 300B, 2A3 experiances wanted I have had a 300B amplifier with a 6f6 driver for many years. I upgraded and rebuilt it many times. What was an essential upgrade is adding an interstage transformer between driver 300B instead of RC coupling. My experience shows that monoblock... | |
| New, Very Interesting CD Transport Hi @creativepart I agree with you that ET3 is a good audio device and a great value for money. But we use a different set of features. | |
| New, Very Interesting CD Transport Hi @creativepart ET-3 Plays DSD from USB memory and does it great! I can use PCM oversampling though coaxial. But don’t need oversampling. My DAC has AKM AK4191 that is built to work with AKM 4499 DAC chip and does oversampling job better then ... | |
| New, Very Interesting CD Transport Hi @tweak1 I use ET3 SPDIF and USB outputs. I2S is tricky. It is not a HDMI standard. Each DAC producer connects I2S to HDMI pins differently. Some sellers on AliExpress make custom HDMI cables. But in this cas you can’t choose your cable by s... | |
| New, Very Interesting CD Transport Hi @tweak1 Do you want to use it as CD transport only? It has a very good sound quality for it price, but a number of drawbacks. | |
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