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| Over-Loading Pre-Amp Stage??? Prima Luna Floyd Ha! It's oddly comforting knowing there are more frustrating tubes out there! And yes, at the moment the amp is switched on first thing and off every night. Good info on leaving it on all the time, a long time ago I ruled this out from other adv... | |
| Over-Loading Pre-Amp Stage??? Prima Luna Floyd Also have a set of these to try as they were pretty well priced and I read a review somewhere that they went well with PL gear...what could possibly go wrong!!! 6189 12AU7 ECC82 JAN SYLVANIA NOS BOXED VALVE TUBE - Langrex | |
| Over-Loading Pre-Amp Stage??? Prima Luna Floyd Ah OK thank-you for this @mulveling So after your edit above I am reading this as the gain is still pretty high as a result of the amp design, and this would mean I should be looking for 'low noise' tubes rather than 'extremely low noise'? I th... | |
| Over-Loading Pre-Amp Stage??? Prima Luna Floyd Good option, thanks @yogiboy Potentiometer would achieve the same results as an attenuator, but does get around my issue of which -dB value to choose. | |
| Thoughts on DAC option I'm not sure how I ended up neglecting this thread, a peril of my job I suspect, but I did want to acknowledge the contributions on the use of AI, room treatments and a good quality source. The latter would need to be second hand, which restricts... | |
| Thoughts on DAC option Changing to a wired connection on the Auralic mini seems to have made a huge improvement. Will take some time to confirm but firm impressions are very promising | |
| Thoughts on DAC option The Audio Mirror Tubadore V is 110v and would need to be modified to run on 240v. Assume the rest of the Tubadore range is the same. From Audio Mirror: It can be converted, but need some soldering inside. I can convert it if you send it to me.... | |
| Thoughts on DAC option Much cleaner than a couple of Mullards I tried, that's for sure. Also picked up some pretty well priced Jan Sylvania military spec tubes, but waiting until the Brimars have done their dash. An Audiogon member rated those in his Prima Luna. Whic... | |
| Thoughts on DAC option @glenmschneider @soix the streamer is close enough to the router to give this a shot. I'll see where this takes me, along with the Vega filters. Google on the way for the smoothlan. @miguelderivero an R2R has been on my mind. May have a route to... | |
| Thoughts on DAC option The other improvements previously mentioned are: AMP power cable - Isotek Ultima Pre-Amp tubes - military grade Brimar 12AU7 | |
| Thoughts on DAC option Thank-you all for your insights, very much appreciated. A few questions to address: Budget is flexible but should be in line with the system as a whole. I'm in New Zealand and the system as a whole is currently sitting around NZD 20k. In terms... | |
| Do other DACs do this? Auralic Vega And as a final update for anyone else who may have this issue, I added an Auralic Aries Mini into the system and it does not do this. It is using the coax SPDIF connection to the Vega dac. | |
| Windows Sound Basics - ASIO WASAPI etc Well, some progress at least, the 'Exclusive Mode'is indeed in the Tidal App, just not from the settings menu. Bottom right is a sound output icon and against the 'Speakers' with DAC name is 'More Settings'. Will still look to a more system wide... | |
| Windows Sound Basics - ASIO WASAPI etc Thanks @drrsutliff . The Gryphon drivers were for your DAC? This would make sense to me technically. I am not aware of any configuration available in the Vega driver, but worth a deeper dive on that. | |
| Windows Sound Basics - ASIO WASAPI etc Thanks @drrsutliff I need to find out more about the ASIO driver. I have the latest Vega driver, and indeed needed it to get the dac working. Maybe there is additional configuration to bypass the windows sample rate? |