Digital

The compact CD-7 was always very musical.

This is a custom-built one-off Gold Note supplied to me with upgrades from the top of the range Favard including its Burr Brown PCM 1792A DAC, components of the power supply including power regulator and OP components as well as the Clock.

Superb and at my cost price.

The signature version has the upgraded Jensen capacitors but was also bought with upgraded tubes (Shuguang Treasure CV-181).

I can supply it with the even better Psvane CV181 TII Series valves with very few hours on them and a back-up pair of Tung-Sol 6SN7 GTBs (just about burned in). These two pairs are ideal for tube rolling, Psvane being full-bodied and the Tung Sols more neutral. For an extra £150, I’ll swap out either of the above for a pair of Mullard ECC33’s!

Currently it also has a lovely Sylvania OA3 regulator valve and a German EZ80 rectifier.

Bespoke high quality mains cable/connector/plug also provided.

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 Linux platform with silver pcbs.

Plays memory sticks directly with an unsurpassed sound quality.

2 x 6922 valve output stage.

Output board upgraded with Clarity Cap output capacitors and non-inductive resistors.

£2995 retail