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highstream
2
Nov 12, 2013
Grant Fidelity has a Calgary showroom, which is where I imagine Darmock got that price. Otherwise, it's only sold through Yulong in Hong Kong, according to Ian Grant's blog - "All products listed at Grant Fidelity website are sold through our Calgary showroom or our webstore only. We do not sell our products through retail outlets." http://grantfidelity.com/site/where_to_buy. Also see the front page top and under Helpful Tips (side) about Ian's health, which has been in bad shape for some time: http://grantfidelity.com/site/blog/14. Hopefully, he's now finally coming through ok.
Forums: -Head-fi forums has a GF TubeDac thread that is of some use, especially in the first half, with Ian participating early on. http://www.head-fi.org/t/603086/review-grant-fidelity-tubedac-11. - http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=385504
Tube Rolling thread w/ Ian's recommended tub spreadsheet linked**** http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=439184 (highly recommend "Russian Rocket" - made a big difference in already good tube sound. Maybe one or two are better, depending on system needs, but others have become high priced)
Reviews: Affordable Audio: http://www.affordableaudio.org/aa2012-08.pdf Positive Feedback: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue58/tubedac11.htm StereoMojo: http://stereomojo.com/Grant%20Audio%20Tube%20DAC11.htm/GrantAudioTubeDAC11.htm
Note: I use the TubeDac-11 in a 2.0 TV system, running Audioengine A5+, and it's worked very well there, and there have been no switching problems between components. Any system with the TubeDac deserves good power cords and ICs, at minimum.
grantfidelity
8
Nov 13, 2013
highstreamNo one ever got DAC-11 for $200 price - we cannot even buy from factory at that price in wholesale of hundreds of units at a time. Some people might mixed it up with DAC-09 which was an older model with less than satisfactory quality so we switched to Yulong to produce the new model DAC-11 with much higher quality parts and design.
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