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Originally Posted by Skylab /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Larry do you have some nice NOS 6AK5's to use in place of the 6J1's?
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I haven't had time to look for nicer tubes yet - and I don't have any 6AK5 or 6J1 tubes. If you have some to sell please drop me a PM soon.
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Originally Posted by V-DiV /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Thanks very much for sharing all the work you've done on this. I'm on the verge of buying either the Pico, Duet, D10, or Predator to pair with my ATH-ESW10JPN. I'd prefer to buy American so I think that means Pico, Predator, or Duet (is Duet made in the U.S. or overseas?). From what you said in your descriptions the Pico sounds like a better match than the Predator for the ESW10s - more spacious, more extended highs.
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The ESW10JPN are not as picky about what amp I use them with, like the Grados or HD600 for instance. So they tend to sound nice with most amps. Since I got the P-51 and D10 and Pico DAC-only, I only tend to listen to my Amphora, D10 or P-51 with my laptop, using either the D10 DAC or the Pico DAC. For me to properly answer that question I'd like to revisit the ESW10 with those amps again before I answer that fully.
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Originally Posted by DoYouRight /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Larry will you do a thread for Desktop Amp/Dacs? Since the trend especially with the EF2 you like and the Compass is people moving that direction to get even more power to their cans.
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I planned to put the EF2 in it's own thread, and link to it from here. My first and second post in this thread are full, and I don't want to add the full reviews here since I have a few desktop DAC/amp reviews already posted elsewhere.
That would include the StyleAudio CARAT-TOPAZ (I should have a link to it in my public profile "about me"). I also have a review on the Travagans Greem desktop DAC/amp in another thread, with a link to it posted in my public profile. I could also dig up my impressions of the Nuforce desktop DAC/amp and put the links here - on the Nuforce I have several posts in someone else's Nuforce thread. I'm not sure if I also have a link already in my public profile "about me" for the Nuforce. I only had the Apogee Duet at my home for 2-3 weeks in February, while I was doing my D10 review, but I don't think I took good enough notes to do a full review. I mainly just confirmed my impressions of it from previous times that I played with it at Blutarsky's house. I did post a Duet vs Mini-DAC impressions in a mini-meet summer 2008 thread, so I could dig up that link and pretend it's a Duet review.
I am not collecting desktop DAC amps, so I don't have a lot to compare to each other. All I have on hand right now is the Nuforce and the EF2, and Blutarsky has the Travagans Green right now to drive his Stax Lambdas via the speaker out. He sold the Duet when I decided it was too similar to what I already have and declined to buy it. The CARAT-TOPAZ was a loaner to review, and I shipped it to the next reviewer. The EF2 is mine as I traded a more expensive EF1 for it, to be the first to review it.
So, maybe I could start a new thread for the EF2 review, and put copies of my Nuforce, Travagans, TOPAZ and Duet reviews in there to consolidate the 5 amps?