Quote:   That's maybe your power supply: the more people using the grid, the dirtier the domestic power. Late night is definitely better here on whatever equipment.  

Post ex-2045 [I see it's disappeared & there's a new one] above is clearly spam & has been duly reported. The French is a random extract from an online contract & the links speak for themselves.   Tiresome.

70 is very high. Try a higher gain setting, unless you're already maxed out. That should reduce the need for volume - and thr problem. Mine (on about 50, gain setting 5) is dead silent into 600ohm Beyers.  

On the Telefunken EK90s. At first, mine were not so much treble-forward as bass-light and overall a bit thin-sounding, if refined and musical (EF95). But after 40-50 hrs they became a dramatically different tube, excellent bass in quantity and quality and well-balanced through the FR. Here's the...

I'm using it with Little Dot MKIV SE and couldn't be happier 9018 + tubes= winner.  

Quote:   I have Sylvania JAN 6AU6WB/WC and a pair of Mazdas on the way from NOS TubeStore. Those prices are silly: I paid $8 ea. for the Mazdas, $4 for the Sylvanias.   Not even sure if I should have ordered them now that my TLF EK90s have burnt in (yes, 40-50 hours). Another heptode...

Nice pickup for someone? http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-x-6AU6A-8425A-Tube-Made-by-RCA-USA-TESTED-/110987912606?pt=R%C3%83%C2%B6hren&hash=item19d765259e

Running my 11.32 on toslink at present with no problems. I'd be looking at other causes.  

These guys appear to be scrap merchants, which I think means anything and everything, mostly metal. They're way out of whack with the tube market (esp postage) so it's possible that they simply don't know what they're doing.

Not criticising you or Guttenberg or the Abyss. Just having fun.  

More money = less fun. I keep telling myself that . . .   Anyway, the only things drawn to the abyss are lemmings.  

I'm following in the wake here guys, and very grateful to everyone who's done all this awesome work.   Graduated from the regular pentodes to Tung-Sol 6AH6WA and thought the performance of the amp went up a whole class or two. Then came the first heptode, Telefunken EK90, and it got even...

Anyone help with a tube question? I have a MKIV SE which came with some tubes marked as follows:   000-4010   CV-4010   KQDD/K   81/27   I understand that these are Mullard tubes, and I want to sell them as such - but they don't carry the Mullard stamp. Is that a problem?  

+1 to that - I for one. Worked flawlessly from install. Win 7/64 bit/ Foobar2000/WASAPI.  

I'm running Windows 7, foobar2000 using WASAPI event mode into the 11.32 - no problem. Try that before you give up foobar.