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i did talk to sasha this morning and he thought maybe the amp just didnt like planars.Must be an incompatibility with your amp. I would talk to Sasha and see what he thinks.
well it turns out im pretty sure i figured out the issue and it makes no sense to me but might make sense to people more experienced with audio equipment. to a lesser extent i think the tubes need to warm up for about 20-30 mins for them to sound correct and my rectifier is not the best (svetlana winged 5U3C). when i turned on the amp and started listening to my elex i noticed they were doing what the Tres were but to a much lesser extent, so i turned on my SS and started listening to them and they were fine so i went back to the WA6 and now they sounded fine. then i decided to listen to the Tres again and they were sounding fine now all the sudden. both my amps are being fed from the same SMSL M200 with the Monolith 887 being fed by balanced XLR and the WA6 is RCA. i decided to test a theory and it was correct, if i turn off the SS amp while any headphone is connected to the WA6 and playing it starts sounding distorted, turn it back on and it sounds normal and this difference is night and day on the Tres.
so i dont know if i need a new DAC or if theres something im doing wrong.
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