Without risking totally hijacking Dom’s thread I will just say that I look forward to learning how your streamer settles in, Will, and how/if you modify it. I’ll bet the bass gets a little more solid once the new caps get some time on them. It’s pretty amazing how good digital is getting.

I’m glad you were able to narrow down the culprit. Those little diodes are sensitive buggers aren’t they? Luckily they are inexpensive so I always have some extras on hand.

If you haven’t tried the UF4007’s they are nice too. Much faster yet “softer” than the 1n4007. I don’t prefer one over the other. They both have their own sound that is good for the right music.

I think it would be very interesting to see the square wave response of your amp, Will. I wonder if all your carefully chosen capacitors have carefully tuned the frequency response of your amp. Similar to rolling tubes, except tubes are a blunt instrument and your caps are a scalpel.

Hi Larry, it was a very quiet one. My most exciting prospct for family fun was canceled due to an illness at that end. But it was okay to have a quiet one at home.

I have never enjoyed a Zen Wave product nor contacted the owner. Hope you can hear from him.

Both tubes SOLD!

Stone,

You might check out Audio Circle. Dave is a sponor there and there may be some info on his circle.

HK

Hi Lon, hope you had a great Holiday.

I have an order in with Dave Cahoon at Zen Wave Cables.

1) Phone not responsive.
2) Email rejected.

Anyone know he's okay?

Hey MM, I will try to get it together to post impressions on the T8 once fully burned in. I started running it into the DAC and pre all last night, and it is already sounding faster, more nimble, and more complex/less smeared. And adding a little EQ helps me tighten, the now, a little soft bass, and to pull some mid "liveness. With that, and my most resolving Phillips 7027s, even hardly played, it is sounding pretty nice! I have had the same tuned Mini for so long because it sounds so amazing, and I could not imagine anything but very high end streamers beating it. Still, though I have a lot of music I love, streaming qobuz or tidal, especially for finding new music, keeps its pull. And now, eight years after upgrading my Mini, the ways digital has finally come into its own, I figured there had to be good front ends at lower costs now. I was close to trying an A8 for quite a while but never got up the nerve, things were so good already here. Then, the T8 showed up, and now having an even better sounding DAC, and Eversolo having been at it a while, the T8 being dedicated, I figured it was bound to be better at making streams from the net more complete and musical, so I went for it. The changes so far, this early in burnin, are promising.

The Bix Centennial All Stars "Celebrating Bix" Arbors cd



This music in modern engineering is powerful!

My system is sounding so good in its current form. . . the transport to DAC connection is awesome and the ZBIT and ZROCK3 are making the SEWE300B sing. I feel so lucky.

Just got in from another bout of shoveling and am warming up my hands. There were about 3 more inches dropped since I was last out, and it's still coming down gently. Sigh. I think it's supposed to end. . . soon (?) Feels good to sit down in front of the system.

Now playing
Marcus Printup "Nocturnal Traces" Blue Note cd



Bass – Ricky Ravelo
Drums – Woody Williams
Piano – Kevin Bales
Trumpet, Producer – Marcus Printup

Recorded January 24 & 25, 1998 at Avatar Studio C, NYC.