connieflyer
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Looks like fun unless the guy in front slows down suddenly !
Are the IEM's for her? She has a nice smile! When Conner hears music he likes he will come and lay down and listen. If it is some thing he does not like, he will walk over and lay down in the bathroom, away from the music,
No time to walk your dog?
@HOWIE13, interesting so one of your favorite power tubes lately has been the straight-form Thompson-CSF 6080's right? I thought it was good but had some slightly off kilter tonality upper regions, maybe like an upper treble sizzle but that's interesting it gave you the best piano reproduction ever, maybe I should give mine a little more time.
Also I've gotta tell everybody what an absolute knockout made-in-heaven pairing the Modi 2 Multibit is with the Elise. It has 0 faults and does everything with great finesse and realism. Not to say it's the best out there, but easily reaching into summit-fi territory at half the price of many DACs... not to mention a major space saver, about the size of two wallets!
Howie which DAC is getting most of your time lately, and any thoughts on a comparison between this and the NAD D1050?
... update on the Thompson-CSF 6080's - just popped 'em back in and they have basically everything good about the Mullards, with better upper-mids yet a bit of treble glare. Still excellent in their own right, and so cheap they're basically 'free'. Also the dynamics / PRAT & mids are heavenly with smaller driver tubes such as Tesla ECC88
I've not given much thought to D-1050 because I've always attributed the change in tone to tubes and headphones that I swap constantly. The DAC is simply there doing it's job and it's the eventual tone from the setup that I like. Without analysing too much, I find it musical with a pleasing sounding timbre and that alone is good enough for me.
The best piano sound I've so far experienced is with 5998/K-R VT231 (with T1g2 and D-1050 DAC).
Imagine the head and wallet ache having to DAC roll as well.