Hi ,Welcome aboard! What others goodies did Stavros send your way?
We have Kassandra Dac, Incito, Diana Integrated and will have soon Diana Forte.
Hi ,Welcome aboard! What others goodies did Stavros send your way?
Thanks man. You gotta hear it soon.
Yes, I think so and with the Jplay and Aries Cerat drivers.
Brad,
This is a little off-topic but do I understand this correctly - you are a user of JPlay software? If so, have you ever done a critical review of its capabilities? (I don't think so, but thought I'd ask.)
I don't know what your passive pre is but a lot are not known for for timbral density or meaty bass
Perhaps it's why the audionote which is so fleshy suits your system....?
I don't know what your passive pre is but a lot are not known for for timbral density or meaty bass
Perhaps it's why the audionote which is so fleshy suits your system....?
Hi ,
No my partner is using it. I am a silver disc or black vinyl user...no computer audio at all
Got it. I'm curious what your partner thinks of it - obviously enough to purchase it but if he has additional thoughts on its merits, I'd be interested to hear them.
Gary
Hi Morricab,
Hows life with your Kassandra treating you?
I ordered one myself just recently, cant wait
Hi Morricab,
Hows life with your Kassandra treating you?
I ordered one myself just recently, cant wait
Hahah
Lampi has had DHTs for years...from Lite 7 to B7 to GG. Not at all new. Since 2014 at least.
Aries Cerat did not...last I checked they uses E280F or something like that. Stavros said these small signal dual triodes were his favourite tubes. However, they are not DHT afaik. Still a very nice octal tube with gold pins from Philips and Telefunken...but not like a DHT, for better or worse.
Many of tbe other features already exist and the new big innovation will be active triode loading...that no one claimed before...afaik. Proof of the pudding is in the eating...so WAIT!
Picture of E280F ...
Picture of typical DHT ...
As for power supply, that is a Lukasz speciality as an engineer specializing in high voltage physics. Both he and Stavros have serious engineering chops.
Grounding post already existed on earlier and lower models...same for low/high gain switch for setups needing it with the much belived DHT KR242.
(...) There are many views as to whether a DHT versus an IDHT confers an absolute and definitive advantage in favour of the DHT, as there are in regards to the claimed superiority of low transconductance tubes versus high transconductance tubes and vice versa (Aldo D’Urso and Thomas Mayer are two such individuals whose views diverge in this debate). (...)
Yes Brad,Yes, the E280F is not a DHT. Flyer misspoke. Stavros likes this triode for its linearity and usefulness in small signal applications. However, for his big amps he is using all DHT. One big difference in the DACs is transformer loading.
Hello gents,
My understanding is the E280F is a pentode (actually, a beam tetrode) similar to the D3a, which in the Kassandra is wired as a triode and loaded with a step-down transformer resulting in a very low output impedance.
There are many views as to whether a DHT versus an IDHT confers an absolute and definitive advantage in favour of the DHT, as there are in regards to the claimed superiority of low transconductance tubes versus high transconductance tubes and vice versa (Aldo D’Urso and Thomas Mayer are two such individuals whose views diverge in this debate). My view is that circuit topology and implementation matters far more than the tube itself, or as you say, wisnon, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. At the very least, it’s certainly not in the images (even if they were resized to scale).
Be well!
853guy
Hello gents,
My understanding is the E280F is a pentode (actually, a beam tetrode) similar to the D3a, which in the Kassandra is wired as a triode and loaded with a step-down transformer resulting in a very low output impedance.
There are many views as to whether a DHT versus an IDHT confers an absolute and definitive advantage in favour of the DHT, as there are in regards to the claimed superiority of low transconductance tubes versus high transconductance tubes and vice versa (Aldo D’Urso and Thomas Mayer are two such individuals whose views diverge in this debate). My view is that circuit topology and implementation matters far more than the tube itself, or as you say, wisnon, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. At the very least, it’s certainly not in the images (even if they were resized to scale).
Be well!
853guy
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