[swaroop81]

Wanted to ask if we had any Decware fans in our group? I personally have a Torii MK V and thoroughly enjoy tube rolling with it. They are paired with Zu Soul Supremes (MK V) and I find that while my setup isn’t a bass champion, the overall presentation is brilliant with a precise soundstage. “The speakers disappear” is such cliche, but something I am fortunate to experience when I listen to music…. Only wish would be to find an excellent, cheap source of NOS tubes…

[musicdre]

i have the decware csp3 preamp.  it sounds great.  its also a low-powered headphone amp.   decware has an active user forum. 

[FullRangeMan]

Wanted to ask if we had any Decware fans in our group? I personally have a Torii MK V and thoroughly enjoy tube rolling with it. They are paired with Zu Soul Supremes (MK V) and I find that while my setup isn’t a bass champion, the overall presentation is brilliant with a precise soundstage. “The speakers disappear” is such cliche, but something I am fortunate to experience when I listen to music…. Only wish would be to find an excellent, cheap source of NOS tubes…

My favorite tube vendor are Andrey and his wife Natasha at GSTubes.com:
https://www.gstube.com/catalog/?key=6n1p&submit=Find

[nature boy]

Check out the Decware forum for tube rolling information and vendors. The Tori MKV is a great and very versatile amp. There are a lot of great insights over there. I've had good luck with Viva Tubes for new issue Sensor (Gold Lion, Mullard, Tung-Sol, etc.). For NOS try Jim McShane @
http://www.mcshanedesign.net/tubes.htm

NB

[bacobits1]

GTS tubes is a dead link.

[nlitworld]

GTS tubes is a dead link.

Worked yesterday. Window shopped some ECC83 tubes on there.

[FullRangeMan]

GTS tubes is a dead link.

It was blocked AGAIN by the authorities of your country, as GSTUBES.COM is a Russian shop located in Moscow, with site hosted in USA.

[Poultrygeist]

I ordered a Zen Triode in January 2022 and I'm finally getting close to the top of the Decware build list. I expect its arrival in a month or so. Looking forward to how it pairs with a couple of my easy to drive OB speakers.

[js1955]

Main page link works fine:

https://gstube.com/index.php

[Markwatkiss]

I have a multitude of 12AX7's and 5751 premium tubes that are surplus to my needs.Flip me a pm if interested.
Also a Decware fan.

[Poultrygeist]

It took a couple of years but I finally received the Decware. With it I got a one year wait club t-shirt. Guess they were out of t-shirts for the two year wait club. It's still breaking in but oh my what a lovely sound. It's currently driving a pair of Fostex Tektons with a WiiM Pro streaming Amazon HD into a Topping DX3 as one of three sources. Bass augmentation is via a kit sub from PE not visible in this picture.

[Poultrygeist]

At some point I'll try the Decware with these home brew F-15/Alphas and Zenith open baffles. The advantage of having multiple flea watt amps and HE speakers is the fun it affords in playing with different combinations.

[Poultrygeist]

Although the Decware is only rated at 2 watts it drives the 93db Tekton Fostex's louder than anyone would ever want. Using the Topping as a preamp/DAC probably provides a bit of gain. The three sources connected to the Topping include an optical from the TV, coax from the WiiM and coax from a Sony DVD player under the TV. Before moving the Deware to this set up I really enjoyed a Dennis Had Magnavox. His Maggie redux is a wonderful single ended amp which I'll probably rotate to the Zeniths for a change.