Thanks, looks like a case of "good things come to those who wait". I just did the update, made sure that the generic driver was off, and all seems great. The sound is excellent and no glitches so far. It's great to have my phone as a front-line music player.

sorry if this looks like I'm picking a fight, but on Head-Fi we have had many experts explain how USB works, These include folks who work with it at the basic design level. They tell us any change in frequency response, dynamic range, etc from the properties of a cable is impossible. Either the...

 welcome to the T1 thread. It's pretty ponderous, and picking through the entire thread is a bit of chore. But if you use the "search this thread" button at the top of the page, you'll quickly find lots of chatter about the X1-T1 combo including some specific recommendations about tubes. Let us...

try "search this thread" at the top of this page. It works very will for requests like yours. There's plenty of chatter about using the DAC from the T1 and the Objective 2 using the RCA outputs, which still utilizes the tube buffer stage. Not sure about the 650s though.

google this: "aune t1 he-500 head-fi" there are plenty of earlier entries in this thread. I realize this thread has gotten huge, but it seems Google knows all about it.   For general searching in head-fi, I find google works better than the head-fi search functions if I simply include head-fi...

I'd be interested in the new X1, but if I bought a fully solid state DAC/headphone amp, what would I fiddle with? what would we talk about? Seriously, I really enjoy being able to tinker with the sound of my T1 simply by swapping the tube. I wouldn't buy an expensive solid-state DAC just for...

  diaBoliQu3:   I see you have the Stoner Acoustics UD100 and the Aune T1. Can I ask how you think they compare as DACs? they are quite different animals, of course.   Thanks.

Even if a stage has a gain of 1 (usually to match impedances, gain of 1 doesn't mean it has no function), it might still not be ideal. Those non-idealities (cross-coupling between channels, uneven frequency response, phase shifts, distortion, etc) are what we like. I bet that a solid state ...

I think there's been lots of discussion on this thread that the T1 is less "tubey" than equivalent devices with no soild state components following the actual D/A circuit (anyone care to make one of those with just tubes?). But most contributors to the thread seem to think that the tube stage...

The T1 has RCA outputs from the DAC, so you can go right from the DAC to an external amp. I never tried it, but I understand that numerous contributors to this thread use it in that way.

If you buy the Schitt stack you'll have a great setup, but that's it. If you buy the Aune T1, you can fiddle forever and search the globe for some obscure magic tube. In my view, that's the difference. I'm sure I would be very happy listening to either. To fiddle or not to fiddle, that's the...

While the size of this thread can be a bit daunting, you should look back through it.   Overall, I think you'll find that most folks are very pleased with the T1 and consider it a worthy unit for tube rolling. For many of us trading up from less capable sources, the T1 has been a bit of a...

Sorry if this ground has been covered already, but I think the ability to run a usb DAC like the T1 from my phone is very cool! A brand new phone pushing a 50 year-old vacuum tube!   I have an LG G2 phone running android 4.2.2. I just hooked it up my T1, and it simply worked! I had read an...

When I started tube rolling, I contacted mhamel by PM after reading some of his entries in this thread. He sold me a small collection of tubes, some were quite inexpensive. I got one "name" tube (an Amperex OG) and a bunch of lesser known tubes. He even threw in a few of questional origin for...

back on track???   I've listening to a 1972 La Radiotechnique pcc85/9aq8 that I got from mhamel. He told me that although it has a 9V heater it runs fine in the Aune T1. Apparently not all versions of the 9aq8 do. I can confirm that it runs fine and sounds great. I just did a quick check with...