stay away from those, cheap chinese crap running on very low voltage with miserable sound
there is lots of threads about 6J1 'fever', stay away
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good way to introduce tubes is to build good tube headphone amplifier, just have it with line level out as well
The tube sound is generally about how the final output distorts the true sound.
As most line amplification is constrained to the linear operation of the devices used I can't see a tube buffer adding the real tube sound to the signal.
As most line amplification is constrained to the linear operation of the devices used I can't see a tube buffer adding the real tube sound to the signal.
Glass-ware has some unity gain tube buffers kits, maybe that would be something to check out, and it would allow you to try some tube rolling
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The cheapest way to add tube sound with lowest distortions is using two tapeheads back to back along with variable rechead drive amp and the tapehead preamp in between dac output and amp which is using the stray field to make a transformer.It also offers complete galvanic isolation and working with no tape and high levels offers no audible noise.
Nezt best way to improve sound in a tube manner is to add some sort of compression-decompression and there are lots of compressors outhere including some using tubes ...the true tube sound comes with an impedance transformer and a compressor is mimiquing the presence of a tube-transformer compound very well.
why do you think Mr. Nelson Pass developed kong preamp?
at 1% distortion it certainly adds something
I have not build it, people seems to love it
at 1% distortion it certainly adds something
I have not build it, people seems to love it
Short answer: get a tube amp.
Anything else is a toy.
Those adding tube buffers are just cheating themselves, because a unity gain tube buffer , at low signal values, does "nothing" , certainly nothing audible.
Doubt you can detect what less than 1% "polite" distortion and wider than audible band bandwidth can do to sound.
Anything adding several % distortion and severely limiting bandwidth is a distortion pedal.
Now a real tube output stage will provide that, plus speaker response changing low damping output, plus different clipping, plus compression when driven hard ... but you are not going that far.
I'm honestly not knowledgable on exactly what points are the crossovers for my Advent Maestros, being four ohm, 3-way air suspension systems.
All I know and care about is that they provide excellent sound in my living room with no need for a subwoofer, and very, very little equalizer adjustments to balance things out.
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If all you want is extra distortion, I would go to a guitar store and audition a bunch of effects boxes.
If all you want is extra distortion, I would go to a guitar store and audition a bunch of effects boxes.
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I think you’re looking for a buffer or a low gain preamp. And very likely you’ll need to build it yourself in order to make sure that it’s balanced. if you are willing to get your hands dirty and play around with things yourself you can avoid the various “you don’t want to do that” advice that is the general response around here if you ask for tube sound without degrading sound quality 🙂
There is a thread around here somewhere by Salas on a preamp that uses a 6V6 tube which you may be able to co-opt into a design of your own. that’s where I suggest you begin.
I have made a device that adds the feeling you miss with solid-state things.
It was meant to be,to correct sound fore 78 records after RIAA correction.
But it also did a great yob on dac,s between preamp .
Last year i made a proto for a friend, he is a DJ. After delivering i missed the sound so made a new one.
Now playing in.
It needs a week ore two to bloom.
I think it is the missing link.
Never going back😀
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It was meant to be,to correct sound fore 78 records after RIAA correction.
But it also did a great yob on dac,s between preamp .
Last year i made a proto for a friend, he is a DJ. After delivering i missed the sound so made a new one.
Now playing in.
It needs a week ore two to bloom.
I think it is the missing link.
Never going back😀
Dutch Forum, buizen correctie toonregeling voor hoog en laag bij 78 toeren platen - forum.zelfbouwaudio.nl
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I have been lowering the added harmonics. The sound is clearly better, more addictive, musical. And without muddying the audio, or adding noise (common in tube / tube emulators).
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