Yeah, I did the cap mod on mine, quite some time ago. Probably been a year or so. I thought it improved the dynamics, bass and clarity. Pretty much across the board. Night and day? eh perhaps not, but definitely noticeable. And a very cheap and easy mod. I enjoyed it before, and I enjoy it more...

Mine works fine with windows native drivers, detected as "HIFI DSD" bit perfect and waspi work great. I use it to feed ADI-2 DAC FS, to free up USB port for iphone. Works as expected, quality is excellent, about the same as USB input on this dac. ADI-2 has excellent inputs on all ports however...

I picked up the U2 PRO, for 56$ on amazon. Im quite impressed with it. I have an RME ADI-2 DAC FS, i recently switched to Apple Music, and wanted the ability to hook up my dac directly to iphone though USB, but also leave my PC attached, so this required me to use spdif input from PC. The...

I don't know how I feel about rolling countless, ridiculously expensive NOS tubes in this amp. I've tried a couple of sets of nos tubes, Amperex A Frame, and another pair of 120$ nos tubes(7308? amperex).. I prefer stock tubes honestly. Perhaps I have not tried enough tubes. I did notice...

Of those 3 pair, I still preferred the stock tubes, pre-mod.

recently cap modded my LP, been going though my tubes again, I only have the stock tubes, and Amperex A-Frame's, as well as JAN 7308, Amperex 1967's, honestly, I much prefer the stock tubes to these two varients, and those 7308's are 150$ a pair. I find the stock tubes to be very neutral, and...

100 hours on the cap mod burn in, and im quite impressed. Things keep getting better and better. Caps really opened up around 80 hours, I love the new detail im hearing in strings, the high's and low's at the extreme's have really come into their own in the last 20 hours. I forget how aweful new...

What headphones do you have? if they have removable cables you can usually buy balanced cables on ebay for cheap. You could use the single ended as a crutch, but the risk is you don't ever get a balanced phone, and that would be a waste.

you need to use the XLR headphone output on the amp, full stop. input does not matter as much. To get "True" balanced you would need to be balanced end to end, as in Source, Amp, and Headphones. I would not sweat it too much if you skip on the balanced source, but the other two are important...

The unbalanced source won't make a huge difference with this amp, but you definately need to use the balanced output for the best experience. It's not close, so yes, you need balanced headphone cables, furthermore, yes it won't be "True Balanced" without balanced input, but it makes little...

you can actually input single ended into the amp, and still get balanced output. not sure it makes a huge difference, what does make a huge difference is balanced output, you don't want to use the SE output (headphone out) on this amp.

Yeah, i gathered from some info I gleaned, that folks take the back of the unit off and use a long screwdriver to get between the socket and adapter and pry it up. That's why i'd considered a socket saver + adapter, is there any negative to this approach other then cost? the tube monger socket...

I have an original LP with very stiff sockets, i can't imagine that tube adapter would ever come out once it's in, without taking the amp apart. I don't really like the idea of it being permanent

So, I have some 12AU7 socket adapters that i've had sitting in a drawer for a year, never did try them. Is the consensus that it's safe to run 12AU7 in the LP? and also, do you guys "Stack" a socket saver first, and then put your adapter in the socket saver and then the tube? so that you can...

48 hrs burn in done.. caps continue to open up and lose congestion. So I can say, these are a clear upgrade in many ways, and as usual with capacitor upgrades, they are a voicing component, and some may prefer one over the other. At first impressions these are more to my taste however. As I...