Thread: Tube v. SS DAC
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Old 12-06-2018, 11:31 AM
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That’s 16 switches per channel for a total of 32 switches, but there are a lot of dual triodes like the 12AT7 so you’d probably only need 16 tubes.

I just think it’s kind of interesting that tube DAC’s are all really solid state in their cores and no one has done a true tube DAC.

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