im still looking for good and cheap tube sound!
i would probably go with the Loxjie but I would need to split the output from my dac and idk if I would lose some quality with that and I don’t have a balanced dac… might go with the little dot after all.
okay…so product issue. did Massdrop address these are were early adopters left hung out, high n dry?
It’s still a concern I think, but it’s not super common I think
The tube hybrid is a pretty good hybrid that I would say is over the loxjie. You should have really any issues splitting your dacs signal, a regular rca splitter will do the job just fine
with the CTH + SDAC i wouldn’t even have to use splitter
im all over amazon looking for splitters… most have bad reviews
The cth from massdrop sorry for the confusion
This splitter seems pretty nice
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i might go the little dot splitter way and if i really feel as though im missing out will probably decide to go the massdrop cth route
Well either way you go hope you enjoy it 
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For the money, it was worth it. But you nailed it- mine was volume pot issues and clicking on power on/off. I had to unplug my headphones before power down and plug in after power up.
Yeah that’s just something I wanted to make sure to point out, because it does sound good for a good price but you just have to know the potential issues beforehand
The CTH+SDAC is currently on sale at Massdrop for $220
That’s a great price for this amp/dac combo.
Yes but when you read the Review they have made some people angry.
Or is the Cavailli tube who i mean?
Anyway,one of the two is it who makes some Problems.
And the beautiful Customerservice from Massdrop are not so great people say.
i didn’t end up buying it…
The price for the X ALEX CAVALLI TUBE HYBRID AMP (CTH) has dropped down to $175 - I was looking for a “warmer” amp or tube to pair with my 6XX’s besides my JDS Labs Atom. For $175 this seems like a pretty good deal?
Hmmm,this amp ist controverse.
Same say is good and same say not good.
Ohne thing ist the wallward,when is dead it give no buying possibility,and it give no posibility to buy for European guys a powerplug,We need a adaptor.
For this Money i think you find a better Amp i find.
The Massdrop things was good about years ago,and today many things are not really good in my opinion.
I think its a really good deal. Alex Cavalli is a very respected designer. and its a Massdrop product. But the Schiit Vali 2 amp is also very nice and 25$ cheaper. not sure how they compare though
Not really when you buy the Schiit Vali 2 you give automaticly money for other tube.
But i find the Electro harmonix gold edition works well on it.
It cost a little bit more as the normally version.
But id depend what Phone it ist.
When the Phone is to bright is not nessesary to buy a bright tube.
I can get a CTH+SDAC for a very good price. How would that compare to the LS+D10?
I own a CTH+SDAC and I’m not a huge fan, it’s OK.
It’ll give you a good listening experience with some SLIGHT warmth.
I think for most listeners they’d at least think the LS+D10 was more resolving, though both would be probably limited by the headphones most would plug in.
I have not tried changing the stock tube in the CTH, so I can’t comment on that.
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I own the Elex.