Hi Hockessinkid. S of T here (formerly stone_of_tone). Its been a while - glad to be back.

2 weeks in with a new quad of Tung-Sol 7581A's. I now realize how much I missed this quad. Past 2.5 years with Tung-Sol 7027A's/which are great. However, the 7581A's are my favorite.

I think you would experience a difference, and it would give you another layer of "gain riding" which could be beneficial. But it would be not as ESSENTIAL or deep a change as mine had been with a lower output from the source. Let's put it this way: I don't think you would be disappointed. And you could consider the Pinetree Audio device that is a lot like the ZBIT--it is actually default the opposite way to the ZBIT: RCA to XLR, but this shop will easily and for no extra charge reverse that to resemble the ZBIT, and they will also add a gain control as the ZBIT has, and the whole cost is less than half that of a ZBIT and the turnaround time is about three weeks order to shipping, sometimes less.

I have two of these--one with gain control, one without, and honestly they sound the same as a ZBIT to me. The owner is very responsive to emails and as nice as can be.

https://sites.google.com/view/pine-tree-audio/devices/se2b-single-ended-to-balan...
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Sometimes turning it back and forth a lot of times will fix it for a while. I can't say I am an expert, but I have lightly sprayed Deoxit cleaner in the internal side spaces of the potentiometer that let you into the two channels of the resistors/wipers. Not much, and then I think turned it a bunch, and it worked. The next time I needed to clean one, I think I had found some Deoxit made specifically for this. Don't know the difference, maybe not mineral oil based??? but it worked too. I have mostly replaced the potentiometers with really nice potentiometers or attenuators so it has been a while.

Thank you Lon.
I checked the RCA output of Denafrips Pontus DAC  it says 2 volts. Do you think i can appreciate the difference?

Dan

More Chopin.



24/96 FLAC Download.

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli didn't make a lot of recordings, but the ones he did make are (mostly) amazing. This is some of the most beautiful piano playing I know. In fact my favorite pianist, Ivan Moravec (see above) was also a big fan.

I did buy this nice little piece of retro-tech to help me keep track of the mercury vapor warm-up time:


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I first got a ZBIT because my DAC's RCA output was just over 1.2 volt and I needed the 2.4 volt that the XLR output provided--the ZBIT gave me full amp power and a bit more heft and slam. When I then added a ZROCK2, I was so pleased that the bass was better and I could ride the gain between the DAC output, the ZBIT output and the ZROCK2 settings.

If you have sufficient gain from the RCA output going into the ZROCK3 you probably won't get the biggest benefit I did from the ZBIT. That said you probably would have fun and would have some fine tuning possibilities for the system; if it doesn't hurt your wallet too much you may want to get in the queue.

Groovy: I haven't hear anything from Al in a bit, but I'm not worried about it. It'll be fun whenever it shows up.

Forgive me if I missed it reading above, but what is the deal with the dual adapter? What's the goal with that?

Hello, I just received my new ZRock3. I would say the bass response is a lot better compared without it. I’m wondering how Zbit will will further improve the sound quality since ZRock has considerable gain too like ZBit. I can see that some of you are using both.

My system:
Denafrips Arce - Denafrips Pontus II - ZRock3 - Cary Audio SLH 80 driving Harbeth SHL 5 Plus XD

Thank you for your help.

McCoy Tyner "Jazz Roots" Telarc cd

I'm not a big Telarc fan (especially not of their house "sound") but this is solo piano and great performances.