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I personally have no hypothesis ...

... as to why tubes might add a sense of more space or depth than is actually on the recording, only that my purely passive preamps didn't have the same sense as my tube preamp, (and the latter, BTW, only with certain vintage tubes). Some have cited the phenomenon of microphonics in the case of tubes.

The author of the Yggdrasil review speculated that some very "airy" sounding DACs, such as the Berkeley, cause ringing due their filtering method that might add a sense of air and space that isn't on the recording. Of course this would be a totally different cause than whatever might give tubes their attribute.




Dmitri Shostakovich



Edits: 11/06/15

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