Douk Audio T8 Pro vacuum tube equalizer

Interesting way to introduce tubes into a system and very affordable.  A tube equalizer actually makes sense in that people use tubes like an equalizer to flavor the sound to personal preference. Would love to hear it.

I had a tube DAC once and enjoyed rolling tubes with it.  Each tube had a unique sound.   Best to try several and see which floats your boat.   In the end I decided no tubes sounded best  and went with a different DAC model, same design but no tube buffer.

Also had an Audio Research tube pre-amp (sp16) for many years.   It sounded wonderful but again in the end I dumped tubes all together and that's where I am now for several years.  

That's just me.  Everyone is different.  It's like soup.  No one recipe is everybody's favorite.

Thank you for the response!  What sent me on this voyage was looking into the new Rogue Audio offerings such as the Pharaoh integrated tube amp at around $5,000 which I just didn't want to spend that much so the $139 price point for the Douk seemed absurd.  I was worried there would be background noise or hiss and it's actually dead silent and the little thing is very well built and really lets me play with each individual recording to dial it in to my liking.  Would you search out vintage tubes or do you think it would be best to just buy several options and just try them out?

Maybe search Decware posts/forums as this (6H1N?) may have been a candidate for use in one of their amps.

I researched the tube some time ago for a particular amp, but forget the details  (as well as the amp being researched:-).

DeKay

Thanks! I will look into that.