oddiofyl

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A preamp recommendation
Audition a Zesto Leto Ultra II.    Beautiful sounding equipment.     
Fleetwood Sound Company
Anyone near Nashua NH can hear Fleetwoods at Fidelis.   Great store with lots of great brands .  
$20k(ish) tube preamps
Audition a Zesto Leto Ultra II   , they make great tube preamps   
Think Its Possible To Order Tubes From the Ukraine?
Try tubes.rs    He has an eBay store also.   He is in Serbia and has a lot of NOS tubes.   I ordered some 5r4gy and they were real deal mil surplus.     
Any problems streaming 24/192 files to external DAC from Bluesound Node?
The stick may need to be formatted with a specific extension,  I can't remember.  I have had a hard drive connected since new and I get the message USB found when I reboot my  Vault.    
Too many choices for R2R DACS--opinions appreciated
I just bought a Lab 12 DAC 1 reference.    Its based on 8 Philips 1543 and has a pair of 6922 in the output stage.  Sounds great and built like a tank,  I am really enjoying this DAC.    Check out Lab 12, their whole line up is very nice .     
Any problems streaming 24/192 files to external DAC from Bluesound Node?
Streaming through Vault 2i with latest software to 2 different DACs.  One DAC just uses LED for sampling rate, not bit depth.  The other has correct ID of any bit depth and sample rate.   They both seem to correctly ID the incoming g 192 Qo up str... 
Mark Levinson Reliability
Personally I would never buy any audio product under the Samsung / Harmon Group ever again. After only a few years they will leave you high and dry.... terrible support for such expensive gear  
Hattor Audio preamps?
I keep tellimg my brother to get one of these ... the remote with digital display  
How important is spending time with your gear?
Actually my girl is too cool to get rid of.....  my ex was the one who crushed my audio dreams.    We listen to music all the time together   
Lab 12
Thanks !  I am really digging this DAC...  I let it "cook" all week  by essentially leaving it on with a 192k stream all week .   Finally got to try USB and it sounds really good.    I think I would have bought it even without a trade in, but that... 
Too many choices for R2R DACS--opinions appreciated
Just bought a LAB 12  DAC 1 reference  and it is very good .   Extremely smooth and easy to listen to .      
How important is spending time with your gear?
Am I a bad guy for dropping my girlfriend off early so I could go home and listen to my new DAC ?      
Lab 12
that isma cool looking device but the proprietary cables are expensive and that's probably why.  I would put my amp, preamp ,and dac on it at the least and the cables are $400 ea The build quality is great , very tough industrial strength chassis... 
Lab 12
I ended up visiting Fidelis in Nashua NH.    Awesome store   They are the distributor for LAB 12.    I used several of their products while demoing the DAC 1.  Really good stuff !!!!  Build quality is excellent.   After spending a little while wit...