I have Steve's finest example of a MK 4. PM sent.

Sold!

Thank you Anthony, and welcome to the Decware family.

Now I have no amp again, until at least November.

Brad

Ah!

Well I do have one other amp, a 40w integrated Onix Melody SP3 which is somewhat chocolatey....and pretty cheap, originally about $1000 like 10+ yrs ago. Designed & engineered by the Aussies...BUT built by the half-assed dirtbag communist Chinese. What I should do is heave that 40lb. pile of Chinese junk onto the street, LOL

Thanks for the kind words. I'm very happy its all working out.

How does the Taboo sound in your system? You now have Steve's best version of that amp.

Btw, its a great match with your CSP3.

Brad

PS. My latest guess is I'm about 12 mos. away from delivery of the Torii MK 5, after being on the list for 4 mos.

I would try the 3V setting. In my systems these preamps respond well to a lot of gain into the preamp.

I tended to run my preamp output at about 90 percent and my Taboo volume at about 70 when I was using just those two after a source in a system for mostly headphone usage. It's a bit different for me now as I have a ZBIT and ZROCK2 before the CSP preamp. . . my preamp output is at 70 percent and Taboo about 80 percent.

I actually DID hurl something out into the street. It was a shit, malfunctioning HP printer. I climbed a three stool ladder and hurled it from over my shoulder onto the pavement, cursing the printer the whole time.

I actually think our printer at home is an hp, it works and I'm trying to avoid hurling it out in the street.

On the other hand, our printer at work being 10 plus years old and you would think a large company would purchase a printer for a technology company but it took months. Parts of it were in a box for months. My point, would have been nice to hurl it in the street but it's my place of work and probably not the best idea. But, thank you for the recommendation.

I have yet to change the 2v setting but I did talk with Steve Decware about input voltages for the CSP-3 and the reference was 2v but you can test with an of the 1v, 2v or 3v outputs from the Chord Qutest.

I talked a little about tubes and suggested not to use 6P14-EV and go figured, I've got seven of them to collect dust. I might just get tubes from Steve and call it good for the majority of them. I have my own source of rectifiers and a few varying input tubes.

I have set the Taboo volume to around 2o clock and still have a tendency to adjust volume on the csp side but go back and forth. Talking with Steve, it sounds like the way I set the gain and output voltage was right where I needed to be.

Lucid mode I've tried form 10o clock to 2o clock. Majority of my music is old rock, etc, so I would thing lucid would work and I think it does. I listen to very little of any of the new modern digital music.

So, in a nut shell, I think I've got it set up and working. I really enjoy these two amps and no current printer problems. I'd rather print at work, use they're paper and ink anyways. Go figure.

Thanks again for everyone's help, input and printer suggestions.