dcfis
100+ Head-Fier
- Joined
- Dec 24, 2005
- Posts
- 253
- Likes
- 12
Anyone seen these on ebay? Anyone here got one? Dr. LuvGruv if your a member here pm me and sell yours to a fellow Texan.
Originally Posted by Godkin /img/forum/go_quote.gif The YAQIN tube buffer is most definately a keeper. It's a great piece of kit for the money. And I still maintain that's it's a good, if not better, than the more expensive MF X-10 V3 (unmodded). This statement needs to be qualified: I'm talking here of the YAQIN with higher quality tubes - MULLARD EF95s, Russian 6J1P-EVs, but, preferably, MULLARD M8100s, a mil-spec version of the EF95. This particular tube in the YAQIN is superb. The MF X-10 V3 tube buffer has many things going for it: its grip, its pace and drive, its pretty accurate, though warmish, portrayal of the music. But it just cannot compete the YAQIN's huge soundstage, brimming with threads and details of the music you never heard before, even with the X-10 V3. Opening up the soundstage means that the music becomes spread out, with details which were aggressively "in your face" with the X-10V3, now fading naturally into the background. I suppose this would be called depth, and the YAQIN has depth by the bucket-load. Everything in the music seems to fall organically into place, voices always to the fore, and everything floating around them in an almost 3D way. This is how I always envisaged the X-10 V3 would sound - only it didn't. |
Originally Posted by Godkin /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hi Gamo, Great to get feedback from another YAQIN tube buffer owner. I haven't tried a better power cord yet, but hope to do so in the near future. Does it bring noticeable improvements in sound? I find that tube gear responds particularly well to high quality power cords or conditioners. What power cord are you using? I find that the QED Conduit is very good for the money (£35-40). I think yours is the Pacific Valve version with the one 6DJ8 tube. Plenty of good equivalents out there - the 6922, ECC88, and the Russian mil-spec 6H23N-EB. For the money, I think the YAQIN is just about unbeatable for the money. I'm certainly impressed with it. But as you say, you have to get rid of those nasty stock tubes to get the best out of it. |
Originally Posted by TheSloth /img/forum/go_quote.gif You might want to note the really not very good 60dB SNR. You are adding a lot of noise to the signal by using one of these. |
Originally Posted by Godkin /img/forum/go_quote.gif I agree with everything you have said, Gamo. The YAQIN is better than the X-10 V3. At the moment, I am running the WESTERN ELECTRIC 403Bs and it sounds fabulous. It sounds as clear as a bell - I certainly cannot hear any distortion. Also tried a good power cable which improved things again. I must try the dampers and see what improvements they bring. |