I understood that the headphone jack would only put out in lucid mode. I sent mine up for a headphone jack but I added a speaker switch as well. I wanted to kill the sound going to the speakers when I use headphones.

Mine works well in either mode. In standard mode it sounds tight and controlled. In lucid mode the sound stage expands noticeably. On some recordings you might prefer standard mode and others lucid.

Update:

I tried it with a pre-amp and it sounds exactly the same, going to try contacting support to see what they say before I freak out!

I have run out of solutions on my own,  besides dummy speaker loads.  I got a 20w 8ohm resistor because it was the only 8ohm resistor radioshack had and it didnt seem to do much granted only one speaker channel was used.

Only other easy option is tubes, but both left and right channels sound exactly alike so it cant be the output tubes.  The input tube maybe?

My taboo was checked out and at decware seems to be fine and in full functioning condition.

Only thing I can think of is the tubes which came with the taboo.  As to why it functions in low volume w/o lucid and completely messed up and loud with lucid is beyond me.

I think I am going to be patched through with steve see if this issue can be resolved.  Obviously if my taboo functions properly, the problem is elsewere.

I have actually tried both variable and  static inputs but came with the same issue.

With lucid mode off my headphones should only output from one side yet it sounded like there was sound in both sides.  Really just awkward.

With a preamp outside of lucid mode it was low volume yet I could hear the amp clipping from too much input power.  In lucid mode I was still getting very weird sound well outside the boundaries of cross feed.  It was almost like slowing down a song the resulting output.

One problem is it sounded like that through both L/R so the chances of both output tubes sounding the same strikes me as a bit strange!  The giant tube I really dont understand what it does~ and the input tube could be a culprit.  Not only did I try a preamp, I also tried a few different sources I had laying around.

I wasn't able to get a hold of anyone on friday, hopefully tuesday will be better!  I am antsy to fix the problem and get sound worthy of my headphones .  I really wish I had speakers though... would of made testing more thorough.

Since decware already tested my amp and seemed to come back with no issues I can only wait and see at this point.  My amp is nonrefundable due to the vcaps(which I doubt would degrade the sound quality as much as I was hearing even without burn in).  So I really want to just solve the problem.

TBH I am satisfied with one feature of the amp so far, it has tubes and I didn't hear any hiss at all which is really really awesome.

I am overloading with information because well its nice to hehe. I really wish I had tubes to test with but unfortunately I am limited and while I am an audiophile(if we are here we all are to some extent) I am not  super hardcore!  

Awesome! Great news.

Cool. Hopefully I'll have the same results with my Torii. Should be arriving any minute at Decware headquarters.

FInally! I am hearing the amp the way its meant to be heard!  Very nice punch!  That is my knee jerk reaction xD.  Fact that im not hearing noise from the tubes makes everything sound better.

Even with the vcap mod I think it sounds great out of the box before burn in.

Me too! Glad she/he's back home safe!

Not a tramp. . . maybe a prodigal daughter or son?

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