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Definitely, thats if I even feel if its needed which 99% of the time I'm like its great :)

Hah good eye. Very close. SV-3800. I use it as my DAC. The tape portion was broken so my work was tossing it. I hooked it up via a USB to SPDIF adapter to the computer as my source is JRIVER) and it absolutely clobbered my Soncoz dual Sabre DAC and my Denafrips Ares II R2R. Again all subjective...

Ah that does make sense now that you say it and I think about it. My open baffles are lower in impedance in the bass area so I guess current requirement would be highest there. Subjectively though it still sounds great in the bass. Maybe very slightly more light like one tick on a tone control...

Apologies for the delay. I did actually. There was some variance in the bass - a little more lean for the tube but subjectively while listening, it doesnt sound like its the 3db or so difference. The red is the tube and the blue a solid state (Behringer EP4000 - QSC RMX clone). Also the output...

Sorry for the late reply and I absolutely am still in love with it. It will have to be pried out of my dead cold hands :)

Very well said. I guess its about enjoying things and not always being serious :)

Yes I think that would be the case for the majority of people who listen for music enjoyment. After all few people ever do a blind listening session in a home scenario wondering which of these devices measures better. Most would judge by which they are enjoying or prefer listening to more...

IMO, in a standard room, even one with some treatment, there are enough issues - that almost negate worrying about small issues or deviation out of some amplification or preamp devices. Of course I'm speaking in standard home listening of course. Many speakers put out quite a bit of distortion...

Well I would have said measurements are super important but recently after me trying a tube amp out of curiosity and having my mind blown about how enjoyable what I'm hearing sounds - makes me wonder how important measurements are for a home audio setup and music enjoyment. I know its a...

I actually did notice that even after about 5 minutes my amp was ready to go. I read online that one should wait like 20 mins but I think even 5 min was fine :) Also thats a neat looking amp right there. One thing I did with mine is put it on a APC R1200 voltage regulator set to 110V as I...

Oh awesome! cant wait to do this on the weekend :)

Hah well luckily I've got a bunch of gear to alternate between and try until I figure out whats going on. I'll list some songs and or albums that get me happy for one reason or other :) Obviously there is a ton more but things flying off the top of my head Dave Brubek - Take Five Bela...

Oh that could then explain why it sounds more 'alive' and dynamic then. Interesting. I wonder if there is an RTA tool that can plot SPL over time at a decent sample rate and do it for a duration of a song) then I'd do the setup like I did - and play back, then compare the two and see how their...

Oh very interesting post and thread there. Thank you for that link :)

Oh sorry didnt mention that. I do try and level match. The way I do it - not sure if this works but I basically feed the amp a tone at the desirable volume I want with one of my amps, then put a resistor on the output and measure the voltage drop across, then I do the same with the other amp and...

Oh fantastic. I'm checking it out. Great find :) So all in all, quite a low power amp but watching to see what he says :) ... so having now watched the video. Seems its a very reasonable performer - low power aside!

Ya I was fully prepared to hate this thing because the idea of tubes in this day and age seemed silly. LOL. Then I got seduced somehow lmao

You have a very good point! So I've voiced my speakers to be fairly neutral (or as much as I can just passively crossed over) and the high frequency driver is a titanium compression driver. I wonder if its a little unforgiving and the tube then makes a lot of the music feel more pleasing and...

I go once every few years just as a means of seeing what new stuff is out there and hanging out with friends. Anyone else going to this? I think I'll be there saturday :) https://audiofest.ca/toronto/

So its a honeymoon phase :)