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Re: My only regret...

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I won't comment on your snipes, but I will answer your questions. First of all, the source of the hum was undeniably the Decware preamp, mostly RF noise which was apparently the result of poor grounding. Steve Deckert attemped on two occasions to eliminate this problem (i.e. first, by correcting a QC issue in the preamp where several units had been shipped with defective soldering, then by increasing the power supply and adding a resister), but there was still an unacceptable amount of hum, IMO.

As for your second question, there is no place on the review form to specifically list the DAC. Besides, I bet if you ask 4 out of 5 people at this site they can tell you which DAC I use after all the posts last year at AR (i.e. in case you've forgotten, it's the MSB Link-DAC). Nevertheless, I'm sorry about this oversight (i.e. one should never assume anyone has facts not in evidence.)

Why would you want a more in depth description of the Decware Zen Preamp's sound? I thought that I made it clear that in spite of the warmth and detail it imparted that I felt it wasn't ready for prime time. If I raved about it's sound it might have given conflicting impressions. By the same token, if I went through all of my concerns about Decware's quality control and unit to unit variation, it would appear as though I'm unfairly slamming the manufacturer (i.e. and yes, there's more, MUCH more that I didn't go into) As it was, I said that I liked it and sending it back for a refund was difficult.

Now I think I'll go read some of your reviews, so I can learn how it should be done.

Respectfully,
AuPh



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