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Solid State or Tubes with your NX-series speakers?

poseidonsvoice

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Re: Solid State or Tubes with your NX-series speakers?
« Reply #420 on: 11 Feb 2026, 12:14 am »
Quote from: BrandonB on 10 Feb 2026, 08:53 pm
That's a nice looking build!

Thanks Brandon. Very kind of you.

Best,
Anand.
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Kelly T

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Re: Solid State or Tubes with your NX-series speakers?
« Reply #421 on: 15 Feb 2026, 02:45 am »
You are an artist Anand! Nice write up, look forward to reading your listening impressions.
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Re: Solid State or Tubes with your NX-series speakers?
« Reply #422 on: 5 Jun 2026, 01:18 am »
Thought I’d share this little amp I built last week. The Babalfish F8. This is a diy version of the Firstwatt F8 available on Diyaudiostore. If you want the best sounding class A possible, this is probably it.


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DrMorbius

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Re: Solid State or Tubes with your NX-series speakers?
« Reply #423 on: 5 Jun 2026, 04:04 am »
Do they make the NX-Series that are not self powered? Asking for a friend.
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Re: Solid State or Tubes with your NX-series speakers?
« Reply #424 on: 5 Jun 2026, 04:06 am »
Quote from: mkrawcz on  5 Jun 2026, 01:18 am
Thought I’d share this little amp I built last week. The Babalfish F8. This is a diy version of the Firstwatt F8 available on Diyaudiostore. If you want the best sounding class A possible, this is probably it.


.       Very nicely laid out, I like it a lot!
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NXSTUDIO-DRUMMER

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Re: Solid State or Tubes with your NX-series speakers?
« Reply #425 on: 5 Jun 2026, 02:46 pm »
Quote from: DrMorbius on  5 Jun 2026, 04:04 am
Do they make the NX-Series that are not self powered? Asking for a friend.

You must be talking about the subs, the other existing NX speaker line up are all passive speakers.
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Kelly T

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Re: Solid State or Tubes with your NX-series speakers?
« Reply #426 on: 10 Jun 2026, 07:11 pm »
Quote from: mkrawcz on  5 Jun 2026, 01:18 am
Thought I’d share this little amp I built last week. The Babalfish F8. This is a diy version of the Firstwatt F8 available on Diyaudiostore. If you want the best sounding class A possible, this is probably it.




Nice build! How does it compare to the Aleph J sonically? I was thinking of giving it a build in the near future.
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mkrawcz

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Re: Solid State or Tubes with your NX-series speakers?
« Reply #427 on: 10 Jun 2026, 09:19 pm »
Quote from: Kelly T on 10 Jun 2026, 07:11 pm

Nice build! How does it compare to the Aleph J sonically? I was thinking of giving it a build in the near future.
It’s a step up from the Aleph J in my opinion. Similar tone, but the F8 has more clarity, punchier bass, and is little more holographic. I have it hooked to my NX Oticas right now and it’s the best I ever heard from them. The center vocal image is deep and utterly real sounding. Even better than my Bottlehead 300b.
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mkrawcz

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Re: Solid State or Tubes with your NX-series speakers?
« Reply #428 on: 10 Jun 2026, 09:33 pm »
I should also add that part of the goodness with this is the power supply. That power supply is the “simple linear bipolar power supply” for sale on Diyaudiostore. It comes with a rectifier snubber circuit and includes resistor values explicitly for the Antek AS-3218 and AS-4218 transformer. It’s really quiet and perfectly laid out.
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Kelly T

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Re: Solid State or Tubes with your NX-series speakers?
« Reply #429 on: 10 Jun 2026, 11:05 pm »
Sounds like a good pursuit! Thank you.
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