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Tube Gear with the Tent XO2

Hi,

I went back and tested the XO2 with a 6SN7 tube preamp and SE EL34 monoblocks and I must say, the difference was audible!
It is easyer and not so sharp in the highs any more, like with SS.
The stress of listening fatigue was still pressent but the period before it starts to bother me is further away.

After doing that with the Tent XO2, I went back for the KC-7 and to my surprice this one was even better than before, so tube is really great to listen to and my findings are more or less the same, but the stress of the XO2 takes longer before it hits me.
So the sound of the tube amps does help but is not healling!

All the best.


Audiofanatic 😉
 
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Terry Demol said:



Guido,

You hit it in a nutshell and said it better than I ever could.

I think "horses for courses" is more the order here as
opposed to "open and shut case".

For instance a rich 300BSET driven by a tube based 0 x OS DAC
would probably benefit from and match the Tent clock's resolution.
However, something like a fully SS system with opamp based DAC
might benefit from the Kwak clocks musicality.

Cheers,

Terry
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Nail on the head :smash: Those who read My WEB Site see exactly this set up 😎

300BSE amp with KR XLS Tubes
TDA 1543 x 60 0-NOS DAC with TENT Clocks...

Sounds great with NO lack of detail and still very analog....

doede
 
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dddac said:


Nail on the head :smash: Those who read My WEB Site see exactly this set up 😎

300BSE amp with KR XLS Tubes
TDA 1543 x 60 0-NOS DAC with TENT Clocks...

Sounds great with NO lack of detail and still very analog....

doede
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As a matter of interest, it would be great to see proper phase noise
plots for both oscillators so we could maybe correlate something.

cheers,

T
 
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