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[rollo]

etcarroll,
 You need to let me throw some Dexa discrete's in there. You really haven't heard it until those are in installed

   I will second that. We used the EE DAC with the Dexa discretes at the DC Audiofest feeding our system.
   BTW your welcome Bill. We are not dealers of EE.




charles

[Bill O'Connell]

Your the man Charles, Thank you.
 I'm certain it matched up well with all the other great gear you carry

[etcarroll]

Still tube rolling Bill, but opamp rolling next on my list.

Send me a link to what you have in mind, I'm game.

I have an RCA clear-top in it now, sounds a tad 'forward' to me.

etcarroll,
 You need to let me throw some Dexa discrete's in there. You really haven't heard it until those are in installed

[etcarroll]

Well if Charles liked it, I'm definately game.

Your the man Charles, Thank you.
 I'm certain it matched up well with all the other great gear you carry

[Triode Pete]

etcarroll,
 You need to let me throw some Dexa discrete's in there. You really haven't heard it until those are in installed

   I will second that. We used the EE DAC with the Dexa discretes at the DC Audiofest feeding our system.
   BTW your welcome Bill. We are not dealers of EE.
charles

Yeah, you failed to mention it was my personal EE DAC+ with Dexas we were using... Btw, it was the power cord attached that made all the difference in the world 

Cheers,
Pete

[shadowlight]

Gene,

Aren't you using the original EE DAC?  Will the Dexa work in it?

[richidoo]

I have an RCA clear-top in it now, sounds a tad 'forward' to me.

I tried clear top RCA 12AU7s (cryoed Black Sable from TubeDepot.com) in my EE Minimax preamp. Great detail, but a little thin compared to a plain getter top RCA. Plain RCA too blurred for me. I liked the stock EE branded tube. Still not phat but extremely low distortion and more body than the cleartops. I guess it's Shuguang.

[JBNY]

Currently running a Wyred4Sound DAC1 with upgraded caps to be equivalent to their DAC2.

I listened to the REGA DAC, Benchmark DAC1 and Bel Canto 3.5 before I bought it.

[etcarroll]

Correct - original EE Minimax with one of Pete's PCs.

Was going to roll in a different tube, opted for opening a bottle of wine instead. Maybe this Vouvray will back off the forwardness a little.

Gene,

Aren't you using the original EE DAC?  Will the Dexa work in it?

[richidoo]

There you go Gene! My wife and I broke open a bottle of our fav 2001 Montepulcciano, to watch the kids decorate the tree.  128k Christmas carols on Pandora sound just fine!

[Bill O'Connell]

Forget the RCA clear-top, overrated, compared to the older D/squared version black-plate from the late 50's. The clear top doesn't hold a candle to it.
 Dexa's can be installed in the original, no problem. Forget tube rolling until you here the DAC with Dexa's.

[Triode Pete]

Correct - original EE Minimax with one of Pete's PCs.

Was going to roll in a different tube, opted for opening a bottle of wine instead. Maybe this Vouvray will back off the forwardness a little.

Gene,

Aren't you using the original EE DAC?  Will the Dexa work in it?

I really like the British Brimar T-series 6067 (12AU7) in my EE DAC+...

My $0.02,
Pete

[etcarroll]

Pretty sure I have one of those in the shoebox - I'll throw it in next.

Forget the RCA clear-top, overrated, compared to the older D/squared version black-plate from the late 50's. The clear top doesn't hold a candle to it.
 Dexa's can be installed in the original, no problem. Forget tube rolling until you here the DAC with Dexa's.

[rollo]

   There are few no brainers out there however the dexas are one of those. Just do it and be berry berry happy. Hard to find but a real tele 12AU7 just may give that Brimar a VG good run for the money. Ya never know until you try. To further enhance the EE+ DAC I strongly recco Pon-Tune footers. Yes we sell them. To date the most affective footers we have tried. Before the Pon-Tunes we liked roller blocks.
   


charles

[richidoo]

http://www.audionervosa.com/index.php?topic=3934.0
http://www.dagogo.com/Print-Article.asp?hArticle=1029
http://www.newclassd.com/index.php?page=55
http://www.partsconnexion.com/opamp_dexa.html
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/digital-source/198813-minimax-dac-best-opamps-replace-stock-ones.html
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/digital-source/198813-minimax-dac-best-opamps-replace-stock-ones.html

I think stock opamp is LM4562, a fav of audio designer because of the specs. John Atkinson devoted an editorial to this savior chip a few years ago. I call it the vampire because it sucks the life out of music. It has low distortion and noise, but we don't need that. Vampire is better left to electron microscopes and military sonar.

Use a DIP puller to remove the existing opamps without damaging them.