Allnic 5000DAC

Ketcham, thanks for your input. Note, however, that the reference earlier in the thread to isochronous adaptive mode, which was in my post, pertained to an Art Dudley review of a Lector DAC, not to the review of the Allnic.

Regards,
-- Al

Al,

My apologies for taking your quote completely out of reference.

I wish Audiogon would allow display of all comments simultaneously instead of refreshing the page showing only one comment.

J

3A5 are tiny DHT tubes. Is that an explanation why they are failing so much?

In the L7 Lampi, I can use 101ds, 2A3, 6A3, 300b, 45,VT52, 5b4g, etc and these seem way more robust (2.5v to 6.3v). It also seems like the bigger the tube the airier the sound. Rectis give even more rolling possibilities, as 5Y3, 5u4g,5R4, 274b, 422a, GZ34/37, 83v and 80 with adapters, U52, etc and they influence the sound enormously.

Tube rolling the Dac is loads of fun and one drawback of the Allnic is that you are stuck with the 3a5 as output tubes (2.8v). Can you at least roll the rectis?

In any case, I dont doubt that it sounds great. I would not pay much attention to the test bench report, as your ears will tell know all you need to know.

No problem, Ketcham. FYI, you can simultaneously display all of the posts on a given page of a thread by clicking on the date that appears to the left of the first response on that page.

Regards,
-- Al

When I was investigating DACs, a dealer found Allnic D5000 had compatibility issues with Bryston BDP-2 in coax and aes above 96hz but fine via USB. D5000 works fine with Oppo-BDP105. BDP-2 works fine with all his DACs except for D5000 so FYI if planning to pair them together.