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[grubyhalo]

Yes, the TPA Buffalo uses the ESS Sabre ES9018 32-bit chip.

The Buffalo III Digital-to-Analog Converter

 

[square_wave]

I have tried the Level 4 in my system.

This dac is a very revealing and resolving dac. In the right kind of system it can sound extremely good.

@thad,
If tubes are used in the right way in any kind of music creation gear, they can be used to create some extremely musical and revealing gear. It all depends on how folks use them.

In very high cost-no-constraint technological height endeavors, solid state may have an edge over tubes when it comes to absolute transparency. But it is only at that level hence it is very academic in nature. In levels below that and for all practical purposes, it is a level playing field ! When it comes to any parameter, tubes or solid state can win depending on how the design is done.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

I don't have anything against tubes: the earliest sound producing devices in my life were pre-transistor (or, at least, before it became a household item).

Perhaps a little prejudice from the fact that there seemed to long periods of silence from those devices while my father was "trying to get the new valve" --- but, wow, this guy is talking about tube life of decades! If he expects the rest of the kit to match that too, then that really is quite something for domestic electronic kit these days

Hmmm... my TT is 30. It is a bit stiff, but still going. My amplifier is about 10 (the front-panel switches are on the blink, but the remote works) and my tape deck has just died at about 12.

 

[ravi_d]

Read somewhere all the valve craze started in Japan 20 years later the valves went into extinction
What's interesting is no body cared about valve sound or realized its tonal importance in the days when the valves were commonly used in various products.
And now anything with a valve is sold at eye-watering prices.

 

[heliumflight]

Read somewhere all the valve craze started in Japan 20 years later the valves went into extinction
What's interesting is no body cared about valve sound or realized its tonal importance in the days when the valves were commonly used in various products.
And now anything with a valve is sold at eye-watering prices.

So true with one's life aswell. One is remembered after his demise- "Oh! What a lovely soul he was"

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

What's interesting is no body cared about valve sound or realized its tonal importance in the days when the valves were commonly used in various products.

My Radiogram sounded better than my radio. Well, deeper, at least. It was a bigger box --- but still it was a box, including all the electronic and mechanical bits, and even a little cupboard to keep records in. I doubt that anyone had ever considered its dimensions in sonic terms, or thought of facilitating the speaker in any way other than giving it a hole in the front of the box with some cloth over it. I guess it must have been made in 1940-something: it didn't seem very new when I knew it in the 1950s.

 

[square_wave]

Valves used in the right way can create magic. Otherwise they sound mushy. The Japanese are masters in the art.

It is funny that there are thousands of bad sounding transistor designs out there. But for some strange reason nobody blames the transistors

 

[mekr]

i am currently playing tubed amplifier LEBEN CS600 and before that i had hybrid UNISON RESEARCH,s UNICO,and the magical sound i am used to getting from these amplifiers,now i cannot go even consider moving to solid state

 

[captrajesh]

After researching to several articles on what tubes can do that transistors can't and vice versa and also listening to many tube amps and powerful solid state amps, I was convinced that hybrid amplification comprising of valve preamp and SS power amp is the way to go but you seem to have gone the all tube way.

I'm curious to know what made you take the all tube route. Hope you'd oblige.

i am currently playing tubed amplifier LEBEN CS600 and before that i had hybrid UNISON RESEARCH,s UNICO,and the magical sound i am used to getting from these amplifiers,now i cannot go even consider moving to solid state

 

[grubyhalo]

...I require another buffalo kit though ( buffalo 2 though )
do inform me about a sale if you see one

I know you wanted the Buff 2, I still wanted to let you (and others who may be interested) know that one more lot of Buffalo DACs are on sale currently:

The Buffalo III Digital-to-Analog Converter

 

[mekr]

After researching to several articles on what tubes can do that transistors can't and vice versa and also listening to many tube amps and powerful solid state amps, I was convinced that hybrid amplification comprising of valve preamp and SS power amp is the way to go but you seem to have gone the all tube way.

I'm curious to know what made you take the all tube route. Hope you'd oblige.

Hi capt,sorry,i was not in town and could not reply to your thread,
BTW HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the HIFI visioners.
About 4 years back i went on a holiday to far east ,where i personally auditioned many speakers,like audio Physic ,Opera italy and various others and i liked Living voice for its lively ,musical and non fatiguing sound which i bought and partnered with my Unison Research,s UNICO hybrid amp ,the sound i could hear for hours without any fatigue and loved to hear on high volumes,and then i contacted many dealers in US and europe to match living Voice with tube amps as kevin of LV wanted me to go for New Audio Frontiers but i bought Leben,after reading Jeff days review on 6moons.com as New Audio frontiers was very expensive,and till today i am so happy with the music,that now i want to change to tube CD player,like consonance,AMR or Goldenote Koala and also going for direct heated SE triode amplifier ,because it has presence and emotion,and now i cannot even think of going back to SS,
Now i am researching on tubed DAC,s ,where i have got very favourable testimonials on Killedac from Australia, and PDX of Lehenan audio from australia again, all are tube output,i even heard lampizator.

 

[captrajesh]

@Mekr, I was in final stages of buying a NOS DAC with twin Philips 1541 chips and all the usual connectivity options. These are the specs: -

- Digital Receiver : CS8412 with precision reclock
- DAC secion - Two TDA1541A in parallel coupled with Panasonic MKP caps.
- Tube output stage with 6DJ8 and very high quality (Panasonic) MKP coupling caps.
- All PSU caps are either Nichicon (for Tube B+) and Panasonic for rest.
- Totally there are 5 independent PSU & Two big transformers.
- High quality internal wiring with all wires being teflon & silver plated.

I have since bought it and am really happy with the sound.