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High end CD player nightmare
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<blockquote data-quote="croak" data-source="post: 22670" data-attributes="member: 361"><p>Just in case some folk get the wrong idea here. I am not anti tube CD players per se. I do not mind a cd player /DAC with a genuine valve output stage. IE the tube is there doing a job like output buffer/filter or current to voltage conversion for eg.</p><p>Many CD players with a tube output are perfectly functional designs excluding the tube, the tube is slipped in the chain to "enhance".</p><p>IMO in the case of something like the Ah Tjoeb, the tube buffer helped the mediocre op amp stage by offering an easy load, softended the digititus of the cheap philips/marantz player it was based on and added a bit of needed bloom with 2nd harmonic.</p><p>Players that do this often use a single dual triode tube. You will need more tubes if you are gonna do full I/V etc with tubes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="croak, post: 22670, member: 361"] Just in case some folk get the wrong idea here. I am not anti tube CD players per se. I do not mind a cd player /DAC with a genuine valve output stage. IE the tube is there doing a job like output buffer/filter or current to voltage conversion for eg. Many CD players with a tube output are perfectly functional designs excluding the tube, the tube is slipped in the chain to "enhance". IMO in the case of something like the Ah Tjoeb, the tube buffer helped the mediocre op amp stage by offering an easy load, softended the digititus of the cheap philips/marantz player it was based on and added a bit of needed bloom with 2nd harmonic. Players that do this often use a single dual triode tube. You will need more tubes if you are gonna do full I/V etc with tubes. [/QUOTE]
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