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| Review: Accustic Arts Reference Tube Hybrid DAC II DA converter I want to share that I have had in the AA DAC for about 30 hours a pair of NOS Amperex 1960's "Bugle Boy" tubes, replacing the stock tubes from China, and the results are trully amazing. More transparency, details, liquidity, and a bigger and more... | |
| Jazz trombone anyone? Many of the recordings of the great Curtis Fuller and Steve Torre would be something for you to check out. Also, check out Wycliffe Gordon, along with the late great Carl Fontana. | |
| Review: Accustic Arts Reference Tube Hybrid DAC II DA converter Dev, I'm not a "tube dude" at all, however I have now discussed with four tube mavens the differences between great NOS tubes and the best tubes coming from China and they all agree that regardless what the application is you should get a great im... | |
| Review: Accustic Arts Reference Tube Hybrid DAC II DA converter Hi Dev, thanks for the nice words regarding my review. To answer your questions:1) The DAC does not even become warm to the touch.2) There is a tube stand-by option, the SS state stays on while the tube goes to sleep, but I just leave it totally o... | |
| Review: Accustic Arts Reference Tube Hybrid DAC II DA converter Hi Branimir, it's good to hear from you, thanks for the kind words regarding my reviews on Accustic Arts digital gear.If you got out of my review that the Tube Hybrid DAC is "warm" sounding then I failed at conveying it's overall sonic signature t... | |
| Review: Accustic Arts Reference Tube Hybrid DAC II DA converter Nickt, I thought it was apparent in my review that I felt that the Tube Hybrid was a giant step up in over all musicality compared to the MK-4, so unequivocably it worth the extra $3500.00. The only concern would be is someone's system revealing e... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective I just got the new Accustic Arts hybrid tube reference DAC in my system. It is not even burnt-in yet, but right out of the box it is the best combination of type 1 and 2 flavor I have ever heard yet in my system. Just wonderful musicality/liquidit... | |
| New Accustic Arts V3 Tube Dac anyone heard? Dev, I wish I could answer your question regarding the hybrid tube design, but alas I cannot. I do know that it is the first DAC not to use tubes in the analog output stage, but how the tubes are used in the overall design I don't have a clue.Rega... | |
| New Accustic Arts V3 Tube Dac anyone heard? Hi guys, you owners of AA MK4 better, "buckle up your sonic safety belts". Right out of the box the V3 is significantly more "musical/organic" in its sonic performance, without losing any dynamics or resolution of the MK4, and its not even close t... | |
| New Accustic Arts V3 Tube Dac anyone heard? Dev, I'll be getting one to demo next week and will share my impressions in the near future. | |
| Can two different passive preamp sound the same? Higoh2006, go to my review of the Bent Audio Tap linestage and it will provide many of the details/information that you are seeking. | |
| Review: Bent Audio Tap Linestage Clio09, your quite right my description does not make sense, so here's the clarification.The tap offered much more air around individual players and each player sounded more three dimensional then what the Joule 150MK11 offered in its soundstage.H... | |
| Review: Bent Audio Tap Linestage Audphile1, the tube linestage was the Joule Electra 150 MK11. So far I have done home auditions with Audio Research(not the Ref3, but the model before), Hovland, Shindo Labs, Wytech, and Lamm, and still like the Tap better in my system. | |
| Review: Bent Audio Tap Linestage This weekend I tried another audition of a very highly regarded tube linestage, retails for $6500.00, to compare to the Bent Audio Tap. Everyone always talks about the "magic" of great tube linestages regarding harmonics, image density, and that "... | |
| Review: Pass Labs X250.5 Amplifier Guidocorona, I again talked to Kent last week regarding if their is sonic difference between the XA and XA.5 series if you do not need to double down into lower impedances, his answer was you cannot tell the difference if you do not need the extra... |