Hello, I have a Bartok with a built-in headphone output, and I'm also using the balanced output. Although I have less demanding headphones than the Abyss or Susvara (currently a Tror, a HD800S, and an Empyrean), I found I had to respect the user manual to the letter to get the most satisfying...

I fully agree with @Ross here, I don't see the point of using an external upsampler. Also, from my own experience, the Bartok takes some time to burn-in and to progressively settle its bass and soundstage. So, although it may sound already very good out of the box, it may not sound quite right...

Hi Chris, Glad you sorted this out ! Cheers, Erwan.

Hello, I'm myself the new happy owner of a dCS Bartok for a couple of days. I use the Bartok both as a DAC for my LoudSpeaker system, but as a DAC/Headphone amp as well. I have the chance to own both a Sennheiser HD800S, a Kennerton Thror, and a Meze Empyrean as headphones. About the Bartok...

Hi CF, hi guys, (Yes I'm still around) I'd not take the KT-150 route with the Euforia if I were you. The KT-150 draws a lot of current (2A each - although some 6AS7G can even draw more) and does massive heat dissipation. I mean MASSIVE. Also the tube is quite large, almost 6cm diameter at its...

And it glows blue on my system ! :-)

You're very welcome Sir. I'm myself totally fund of those cheap, easy to find reissued tubes. Combined with quad CV4003 (Military Millard NOS of late 90's) as drivers, Empyrean is just absent on my head, i'm surrounded by music, details and dynamics as they should and always must be. Somehow the...

At least, this time the tubes are quite easy to find and quite affordable as well.

Looks like I've contributed to create a new trend ;-) If one "dares", I'd been interested in knowing what a quad 7581A could do on an Euforia. Cheers, Erwan

Based on my past experience with the Euforia: For powers, I'd definitely recommend Tung-Sol 5998 Chrome Top (the non-chrome top version is actually a rebranded Western Electric 421A, hence a unicorn). Fast, quite comprehensive in all domains, reliable. Not cheap, yet still relatively easy to...

Well, I confess I'm quite embarrassed by the situation too. And if I had detected anything, I'd had for sure sent my Euforia back to Poland for a good revision before selling it... Let's see how things go with Lukasz, and what has become faulty in this amp. This might be instructive for others...

Si ! (same as you guys in UK) On the paper, EDF (the historical and principal electricity provider in France) writes down in its contracts that the 230v they provide can vary in a significant way: from +6% to -10%. I'd say that such variations are rare to my knowledge, and can be seen when...

Yes, I fully agree with you Mordy. I already told Chris the hum that he was hearing was very likely coming from the power supply of the Euforia, that he was "hearing the 50hz AC", and very unlikely coming from the tubes. The hum at Volume 0 is a good indicator of that. What really puzzles me...

Just to add to Chris comment, I've been using as much 6SN7/6ASG7 and EL tubes on this amp. For the EL tubes, I mostly used EL38/EL32 combo. The EL11 and EL39 were barely used as I found in love of my new amp shortly after the acquisitions of those. They are both less than 50h usage for what...

Could be :-D