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DK Design VS.1 Reference mkII - Optimization

I would like to know what tuning, customizing, hot rodding, tweaking, what ever.. that you owners of DK Design VS-1 MK2 are using to bring out the best in this amp. It seems to be responsive to changes in interconnects, tubes, power & speaker cables, speaker dynamics, etc. most probably to both the positive and negative.

Please share your work. I would like to know what improved it's performance, what caused no real change and what made it sound worse. Thanks in advance!
jomoinc
theaudiotweak
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Electrons vibrate regardless of mass. If there was no motion their would be no sound. Giving that motion focused direction and relief is the key to better sound and greater efficiency. Tom
audioari1
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Tvad, you are absolutely right.
theaudiotweak
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Knowing the real answer to why? may greatly increase the application of the answer. Tom
jomoinc OP
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Sbayne,
I went to the Zcables website and was reading the Black Lightning info and noticed that they "do not advise the 12AWG for amps producing over 200 watts non didgital" I emailed and received a reply from Mark Hampton stating that high current amps may benefit from a larger AWG. "The more complicated answer it that sometimes amount of current is the most important thing for power amps, and sometimes quality of current is."
Do you or anyone else know what the DK provided ac cable AWG was? Anything unique about it? Also other owners...what power cable are you using with this amp to benefit its performance?
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