mikewdc
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| EL34 differences in air & stage depth? These were apparently made in the 70's. Not sure how I would verify that. For all I know they are chinese fakes (but I hope not!). I do know they really seem to have changed the sound--even over the SED Winged C's. | |
| EL34 differences in air & stage depth? Oh my gosh!! I don't do a lot of tube rolling. My hearing is just not that detailed I guess. But I did recently try a couple things in my Cayin TA-30 (mods by Paul G.). Other than the standard tubes he provides in the unit, I tried SED Winged C an... | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? You become obsessed with tube rolling and spend way too much money doing it. "tongue-in-cheek" but also true. | |
| dac with sonos Thanks Shazam. Like I said, I'm new to the digital bit (other than the Rega Planet CD player I purchased a thousand years ago--and still use, I might add). If I understand correctly, the Sonos player has a DAC in it, it's just not very good, corre... | |
| dac with sonos What does jitter sound like? How can you tell if what you're hearing (that you don't like) is bad source, bad cable, tube problem, jitter, or misaligned stars? (Ok, j/k on the last one). Since going to digital, I hear what I consider harshness and... | |
| DAC instead of Pre-amp Is that what the new PS Audio PerfectWave DAC is? | |
| DAC instead of Pre-amp Thanks all for your comments. In retrospect, I should have indicated what I'm running now. I have a fully modded Cayin TA-30 which I run with the volume full on making it a straight gain path. The pre-amp is a Signature TAD-150 which connects to t... |