Docet Lector 0.5T valve CD player.
Croft modified with various component upgrades and circuit modifications.
One of the most analogue-sounding CD players ever.
Has developed a fault with what seems like overheating regulators.
Plays fine for half an hour and then distorts.
New laser fitted in a bid to cure fault but not was not caused by the laser.
Will sell if enquiries come before I get round to investigating further.
Superb valve dac ex-dem.
Excellent, dynamic sound with 3 dimensional valve tone.
Upgraded GE output valves.
Later called VAD.
6Moons reviewing TAD 1 6Moons TAD 1 pages
HiFi Choice about DAC 10 DSD (2014)
HiFi Critic reviewing DAC 12 Enjoy the Music DAC 12 pages
Sounds superb even with basic computer audio set-up due to its tonal richness and scale.
Retail price £6995
Pre-owned
Fantastic-sounding balanced DAC / streamer, built on a Linux platform with silver pcbs.
Plays memory sticks directly with an unsurpassed sound quality. Also excellent as a DAC hooked up to appropriate modern day streamers such as AURALiC, Bluesound or even a classic Squeezebox Touch.
2 x 6922 valve output stage.
Output board upgraded with Clarity Cap output capacitors and non-inductive resistors.
£2995 retail
Review (https://www.dagogo.com/blacknote-dss-30i-tube-dac-review/)
This is a digital product that I can listen to for long periods without fatigue or boredom. The only other digital product that did this for me were purposefully smoothing over the rough edges and sweetening the tonal balance. Blacknote isn’t artificially smoothing or sweetening with the DSS: they have come up with a better way of reassembling the zeroes and ones back into an organic whole.
