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PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread
@alightronics  I forgot to say that I purchased the preamp from an individual, not a company. Jim  
Jazz for aficionados
Yesterday, I had the Ray Brown Trio playing for several hours. I played the first five albums that came up on Qobuz and really didn’t pay attention to the names of the albums.  It was a great afternoon.  
Recommend a DAC based on Analog Devices?
I’m very happy with my Denifrips Pontus ll.   
8 ohm nominal impedance/4.69 ohm minimal impedance--is this a bad load (on paper)?
Impedance varies greatly when driving speakers. So for the Revel dropping to 4.69 ohms is really no big deal. It’s when a speaker drops below 2 ohms you might have a problem.  Both my Hegel and my PS Audio amps have no trouble handling 2 ohm loads.  
PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread
@alightronics  As I have said before, I bought the preamp used. The original tubes that came with the preamp were Gold Lions and are supposed to last 2000-4000 hours. The new tubes that were in it were12au7’, PSVANE and the new tubes in the boxe... 
PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread
@alightronics  Hello, The seller says the tubes in preamp only had a couple hundred hours on them and the hour meter in the preamp confirmed it. He also said that the other four tubes were new. When the first tube started clicking, I swapped the... 
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PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread
@jetter  Who knows,@alightronics might be able to help us out? Either way, I just ordered some NOS RCA clear tops from Brent Jesse to try.  
PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread
@jetter  Viva tubes is where mine came from as well. Sigh  
PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread
@alightronics  I just bought a used PS Audio preamp that came with three pairs of PSVANE 12au7 Art series tubes. One pair was in the preamp and the other two pair were still in their boxes. All of the tubes were noisy and within a few weeks, 5 ou... 
Did anyone return a PSAudio Powerplant? Why?
@nyev  Take everything you hear from ASR with at least a pound of salt! All the best.  
VICTORFABIUS' Sales Here Are Scams
Thanks for the heads up.  I won’t buy anything from either of you on Head - Fi.  
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