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Listening to Our Lady Peace ‘Gravity’ album streamed via Apple. Remember these guys?
Listening to Our Lady Peace ‘Gravity’ album streamed via Apple. Remember these guys?

FAW Noir Hybrid is fantastic cable! Great on LCD-X, Clear OG, ZMFs …First ever post here with a picture, lol. Tonight I’m making sweet sounds with the ifi Neo iDSD which sounds nice to my ears, as well as the Clear OG (on my messy desk that I promised my wife I’d clean today). Btw, the cable is my newly arrived Forza Noir Hybrid HPC that’s superb for the Clears.
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Audeze LCD-X (2016) << FAW Noir Hybrid HPC << Liquid Platinum (Sylvania ‘yellow print, long plate’ 12AU7s):[Flying Dutchman: April, 1975.]
The 12AU7/ECC82 tubes can and often do have structural / sonic advantages over 6DJ8/6922 tubes. E.g. ‘long plates’ (17mm), triple mica. Also, the gain is 20x versus 32x: more signal ‘headroom’ within the LP circuit. Also, I can leave the adapters in one LP while not using adapters in the other LP. [Removing stubborn adapters from LP is a b###h !]I didn't know you had two LPs! Too many good tubes and not enough time if you had to roll them through a single amp or what?How do you like using 12AU7/12AX7 family tubes in then instead of the 6922s? Are you just doing it for more tube rolling options or does that family in particular offer you performance, sonic or otherwise, that the 6DJ8/6922 family can't match?
The 12AU7/ECC82 tubes do have structural / sonic advantages over 6DJ8/6922 tubes. E.g. ‘long plates’ (17mm), triple mica. Also, the gain is 20x versus 32x: more signal ‘headroom’ within the LP circuit. Also, I can leave the adapters in one LP while not using adapters in the other LP. [Removing stubborn adapters from LP is a b###h !]![]()