Today I tried a Yaqin cd2 buffer on the dac2. USB, Jriver, 192k flac of audiogon wake up your ears, dac2, to the yaqin to the arc sp16, Mcintosh mc402, legacy focus speakers.
I tried it with several tubes. My 2 faves on this setup was voskod and western electric. I also tried siemens, ge, and tung sol.
I did make the female voices a bit softer and the bass slightly less and it also widened the sound stage but, it wasn't as deep. I actually thought it was warmer sounding without the buffer in place!!! I preferred it without the buffer in place. The dac 2 by itself just sounded better. Not sure if there is such a thing as too much tube? Because the preamp is tube, maybe it was just overkill? OR if i had a better tube buffer in place like a Musical Fidelity, it might be a different story but for now, the dac 2 sounded wonderful by itself.
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