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Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? [message #97421 is a reply to message #97416]

Wed, 07 February 2024 20:15

gofar99
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Hi, I have no experience regarding the gear you are thinking about. I do love tube sound and almost all of my designs are all tubes. (a few things like SS rectifiers though). My sense is that since the media that goes into DAC is digital I would personally opt for a digital DAC with a clean audio section. It could be either SS or tube. Each has positive and negative aspects. It is ironic that the DAC I use has settings to "make it sound like a tube unit". After listening to all the choices I chose another one. I'm not sure what they were trying to do but the clean output variations sounded better. If you can hear the units you are thinking about it would be best, an alternative is a try before you buy arrangement (yes I know fairly rare). Otherwise it is kind of a crap shoot. No two folks have the same ears and yours are the ones that matter in this case.

Good Listening
Bruce

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		Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: kasperbergholt on Sun, 04 February 2024 07:56
		Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: Rusty on Sun, 04 February 2024 12:46
		Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: kasperbergholt on Tue, 06 February 2024 05:53
		Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: Rusty on Tue, 06 February 2024 06:59
		Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: kasperbergholt on Tue, 06 February 2024 12:38
		Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: Rusty on Tue, 06 February 2024 18:09
		Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: gofar99 on Wed, 07 February 2024 20:15
		Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: kasperbergholt on Fri, 09 February 2024 04:43
		Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: Rusty on Sat, 10 February 2024 10:03
		Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: kasperbergholt on Wed, 14 February 2024 11:13
		Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: gofar99 on Thu, 15 February 2024 20:58
		Re: Tube DAC - SW1X, Abbas, LAB12, Sonic Frontiers? By: kasperbergholt on Tue, 20 February 2024 10:57

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