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Do You Have to Play a Component to Warm it Up?
I never turn my CD deck off, but a few minutes playing time still improves the SQ. It has moving parts (rubber belts and a greased rail).   DeKay  
Warm, yet detailed tube preamp
Here's a link to Rouge Audio that you may find enticing...     DeKay  
PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread
Are the Horizon 2A3 tubes available in the USA (see them listed for sale in Europe)?   DeKay  
A great Otis Gibbs interview with guitarist Kenny Vaughan.
Playing with a good band...     DeKay  
I need some high quality Printed Circuit Boards Made (DYNACO ST-70)
tubes4hifi has various versions and here's a link to older production boards... https://www.ebay.com/itm/223453865955   DeKay  
Bandology...
Beaver first.   DeKay  
I need some high quality Printed Circuit Boards Made (DYNACO ST-70)
Here's a link NR's pic/source (they can be ordered without parts).   https://www.dynakitparts.com/product-category/dynakit-products/pc-boards/   DeKay  
Looking for RCA cables from preamp to amp?
On the cheap Kimber PBJ used to be a top choice, but that was years ago.   DeKay  
Looking for RCA cables from preamp to amp?
Zuesman: Neotech has a less expensive (3001 based) interconnect I read about, but I was unable to find a stateside vendor. 100cm would (obviously) be 1 meter - don't know the current exchange rate but the price would be less VAT if shipped to th... 
I need some high quality Printed Circuit Boards Made (DYNACO ST-70)
I Googled "custom circuit boards silver". https://www.thomasnet.com/suppliers/usa/silver-through-hole-printed-circuit-boards-pcb-96079991   DeKay  
Best 12AU7?
If you are using this in the buffer stage you recently posted about I would not drop a lot of coin into tube rolling. Maybe try an RCA clear top as they are clean sounding and cheap as chips to see if it makes much of a difference. I use expensi... 
CAL alpha dac resistor values
The 18/48 version uses Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4328-KP 18-Bit Stereo D/A Converter (per a blog @ Twittering Machines). I could not come up with the converter used in the 24/96 version.   DeKay  
CAL alpha dac resistor values
There were 18 and 24 bit versions. I think that your pic is the 18, but not certain. If you can make out the processing chips that would be definitive.   DeKay  
CAL alpha dac resistor values
Sorry, I could not find a schematic and since my eyesight is not that great it's difficult for me to even make out the numbers. I've used the Alpha and the less expensive model (Sigma?) in the past. Still running an Icon MkII.   DeKay    
CAL alpha dac resistor values
Can you make them out in this pic (click on pic to enlarge)?   DeKay