On Tuesday 04 June 2002 12:56, David Matthews wrote:

> Now that's just ridiculous.  I love tubes as much as anyone, but what's the
> point of using a tube amplifier with a cheapo motherboard DAC?

I'd be more interested to see how they're generating the B+ voltage for that 
tube -- values of around +100 V DC or more are typically required.  I can 
just imagine how the circuitry for *that* affects noise performance in the 
DAC...

Cheers!


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