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Z0d1Ac
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May 18, 2018
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May 18, 2018
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Z0d1AcHiss is expected. Especially on stock tubes. This is normal :)
Try to min volume of source and max out LD MK II to get out most of tubes - listen to guitars for example Hotel California :)
Z0d1Ac
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May 18, 2018
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Thanks for the suggestion. %100 windows volume you can still hear it. I also heard hooking it up to another power strip with nothing else plugged into it could fix the issue and will try that some time later.
I have it hooked up to a computer. New motherboards such as the x370 or z370 have a known issue of channel imbalanced and channel leakage above windows volume %90. So I leave mine on %80 which brings the bit depth from 16 to 15 and is not much of a issue. Or if playing music files from computer (not games or youtube because I don't know how to get audio) then you can use foobar with asio.
I have it hooked up to a computer. New motherboards such as the x370 or z370 have a known issue of channel imbalanced and channel leakage above windows volume %90. So I leave mine on %80 which brings the bit depth from 16 to 15 and is not much of a issue. Or if playing music files from computer (not games or youtube because I don't know how to get audio) then you can use foobar with asio.
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May 20, 2018
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Z0d1AcOk sorry for confusion. I cleaned pins and zero hum. Also what you suggested hiss may be caused by motherboard. I'm using external DAC icon hdp. Silence. Nice ;) also have 600 ohm dt-990 for that purpose and gain set to 3 minimum. It's great! It seems what you hear is EMI
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First impressions is that the bass is clean and stronger than my little bear b4 (example: song: the weeknd call out my name on youtube has very distorted bass and this amp does it very clean which is good for a low quality youtube video). It does sound spacious which I wonder will change (a bit recessed maybe burn in will help or aftermarket tubes).
I have some ge 5654. Russian power tube and russian voshkods on the way, will test once I burned the stock tubes in first to see how awesome the new tubes are (have to burn them in too cause I got the new versions).
Issues so far: - Mine was shipping by fedex and the box was damaged on the side. Unit is working fine so far tho. - Already known issues: Up to like volume 10 the left channel is louder then once you raise the volume it gets balanced. - With nothing playing you can hear hiss above volume 50. Barely noticeable around volume 30. I hear burn in will fix the hiss or trying higher quality tubes than vs the stock.