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Malta Islands of Mysteries and Dark Secrets — Mysterious Underground World and Paranormal History — Beyond Room 313 w Thomas Sheridan

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Malta Islands of Mysteries and Dark Secrets

Saved by Scott Nixon’s Tube DAC

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$500 tube DAC with optical input to the rescue. We were recently forced (by purchasing a microwave-poisonous TV without analog RCA outputs!) to find a decent, plain DAC to convert the TV’s S/PDIF TOSLINK optical uncompressed stereo interleaved digital PCM into plain-jane, unbalanced RCA analog outputs – in a device preferably having a simple, analog volume control … Read more

Tubes vs Transformers – What good tube “tone” looks like

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Metal and wire is just metal and wire. The real sonic magic comes from the tubes. GAGA gets all that metal out of their way. An examination into the esoterica shrouding audio output transformers, tubes and “tone”, or the various unpleasant effects of bulky metal on faithful, musical amplification. Whereas traditional output transformers – homogenizing … Read more