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| Linear Tube Audio - Micro ZOTL - version -3 Update on upgrades @sls883 While I was waiting on the upgrade, I used an older Schiit Saga+ preamp with a CBS VT231 tube in it. It was the first preamp I purchased when I was starting to get back into the audio journey. It actually sounded quite nice! It was $400 5 ... | |
| Linear Tube Audio - Micro ZOTL - version -3 Update on upgrades @sls883 I am still truly enjoying the upgrade and not hearing any downsides. There really is this immediacy and vibrancy that wasn’t quite there in the Level 2, as great as the Level 2 was for me. I am going to try some other 6SN7s soon. i also r... | |
| Weiss DAC 204 hiccups My issues were very intermittent (more so than what you describe). I could have no issues one day and then several the next. It was very frustrating. I had no issues either with a Bluesound and a much less expensive Cambridge DAC. My issues starte... | |
| Linear Tube Audio - Micro ZOTL - version -3 Update on upgrades Just for the info, I saw that Steve Guttenberg posted his thoughts on the differences between the Level 2 and 3 a few weeks back. Seemed to correspond to the positive comments folks have mentioned here. | |
| Weiss DAC 204 hiccups What sort of hiccups are you experiencing? I have a Weiss 204 and am using a Bluesound Node as the streamer and also had some issues for a while (some random noise issues that were very intermittent for instance). I tried a number of different tro... | |
| the gateway product that turned you into an audiophile My experience also involved paper route money :) I got wrapped up in reading Stereo Review magazines when I was a kid. Starting buying audio equipment (can’t remember all of it). I think I had a Proton integrated amp, can’t recall which speakers,... | |
| Power Supply Upgrade for Bluesound Nano I use the PD Creative board and an iFi power supply. Just using mine as a streamer and it is a nice upgrade. All of this of course lets you use a much lower noise power supply than the unit’s original one. And I still use the Bluesound as there i... | |
| Pass Labs XA-25 vs XA-30.8 amplifier Unfortunately I cannot compare the XA25 to the XA 30.8 as I own the XA25 and never heard the 30.8. As others have mentioned, the XA25 is a “different” Pass amp and not just in that the 30.8 has balanced inputs and the XA25 does not. From everythi... | |
| Wool Felt Footers? I use hockey pucks with furniture felt rounds from Amazon attached to the bottom of the pucks under a few pieces of my equipment. Certainly cost effective. | |
| Linear Tube Audio - Micro ZOTL - version -3 Update on upgrades Not on the front of the unit. There may be something on the back - I don’t recall. Unfortunately getting out of my rack to check is not the easiest of operations. | |
| Linear Tube Audio - Micro ZOTL - version -3 Update on upgrades @troutstreamnm Enjoy! I continue to be incredibly impressed. There really is more “there, there”! And while mine has settled in, it has taken a bit of time in my system. | |
| Linear Tube Audio - Micro ZOTL - version -3 Update on upgrades @sls883 Tube rolling in the LTA definitely has a noticeable impact. I have had to change some tubes around, but am using medical grade Telefunkenkens for the inputs and currently Sylvania 6SN7s on the output. All from Brent Jesse. One other thing... | |
| Linear Tube Audio - Micro ZOTL - version -3 Update on upgrades Got my Level 3 upgrade back last week. It did need a bit of break in within my system. First off - the immediacy. The Level 2 might have been a little bit laid back, but the Level 3 takes care of that. It is fast and very dynamic. This is the rea... | |
| Thoughts on Iconoclast interconnects? I started my journey on higher end ICs with Iconoclast TPC interconnects. Great value for the money. I used them on source components and from pre to amplifier. They were a huge step up from the sub $100 ICs I was using at the time. I wanted to u... | |
| Linear Tube Audio - Micro ZOTL - version -3 Update on upgrades I sent mine in a couple of weeks ago. Heard they were working on it several days after. LTA is doing a one week or so bench burn in after they do the actual upgrades. I don’t have a ship date yet on the return, but hoping it is soon. Happy to let ... |