*** Thank You Steve - for excellent customer support! ***

Just wanted to throw a few well deserved kudos to Steve and crew at Decware for standing behind their products and customers!

I sent my CSP in 'cause it was sounding a bit strange and I didn't know what was going on with it. Within a few weeks, Steve returned it not only upgraded to the latest rev, but also adjusted it for my new source (3.5V). (No Charge)

I am really enjoying this piece once again  :D

Thanks Steve!

- Ray

Mmmmm...... One fine pre, I agree. Its made my system go berserk, in a good way.

Mr C

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A cryoed Mullard 5y3, and BB 6dj8's, and jeez, I can even listen to cd's (thanks to the zbox as well)!

Karl

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Hi Karl, I'm tempted to buy a pair of BB's but this morning, took out the stock Sovtek 5Y3 for a a bit more aggressive RCA 5V4GYB. Sound is more rounded out and fuller. I'm going to try a few more increasingly aggressive rectifiers and climb the voltage ladder. Only one I don't have is a 5AR4/GZ34 but at +30V it might be a bit much  ;)

Very cool, Mr C,

Delighted it's working as it sounds like there was a little suffering before. It's by far my best ever line level pre (did I say that b4?)

Rayd,

For some reason, I couldn't tolerate the 5V4, gz32, or 5U4's in my system, but had an old 5AR4 (possibly Sylvania) that sounded quite nice. It wasn't so hard sounding as the higher forwards voltage would suggest and was much better than the 5U4. It's gotta be the fault of other gear too.

My least favorites were the the 5U4 (very overamped sounding) and the 5R4 (everything runs together and is really mushy).

It's certainly very system dependent. The Mullard 5y3, which is cryoed, has a singing sound in my system. I tried a Bendix Red Bank which was good but still not anything like the Mullard  

Karl