I gave up on my 'lampucera' with tube output stage (scavenged from my modwright 999) and bought the grant audio dac11, wasn't really all that impressed with it to be honest, rolled in an nos Philips 6dj8, the whole affair seemed, well, slow and 'unexciting' of course, coming from tape, and decent vinyl, the bar is high.. But tonight something incredible happened! I'm probably at the 50hr mark and wow! This thing is sounding GREAT!! I mean, it's really sounding quite good, detail, texture, clarity, depth dynamic impact, and an absolutely silent background! I'm having a hard time pulling myself away from the system to tend to responsibilities... !
This has happened with tape and vinyl, but never with digital... It's much more satisfying than my old modwright or AN dac ever was, and I'm talking about red book!
That Mytek is gonna kill me!!
I'll listen to a tape later and set things straight!! I hope.
Whew... Digital sure has come a long way in the last few years.