Eddie Current Zana Deux S

Discussion in 'Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units' started by Luckbad, Apr 5, 2016.

  1. RKML0007

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    No worries, just let me know!
     
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    The east coast is jealous of all the west coast EC parties. It's such a drag missing these events!
     
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    I'd like to re-listen to the Zana Deux Super Super and Black Widow. Is there anyone who lives close to San Francisco that owns one or both of these amplifiers? If so please send me a PM.
     
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    I am looking to stock some power and rectifier tubes for the Zana and sent an email to EC but no reply so far.
    Does anybody know where I can get the same stock tubes EC uses for the Zana?
     
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    I don't believe EC stocks these things. I had my rectifiers short a couple of times and each time I got mine on eBay.
     
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    I know they don't stock them but they once gave me an adrees where to get them, I believe it was their supplier as well. Sadly I lost it.
    I'd prefer to buy it from their source instead of scavenging on fleabay ...
     
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    Understand. I have had decent stuff from nixiestore on EBay.... (ww.nixiestore.com) FWIW....
     
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    Thinks for the tip, may check them out if I don't get a reply from EC. I'll try to contact them again first.
     
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    Bah, screw it, I bought 4 pairs of each from Nixiestore.
    Already got myself a nice stock of 6SU7GTY and Sophia as well.
    Want to be ahead of the Apocalypse. ;)
    Thanks for your tip Koth!

    Anybody have some nice Mullard ECC35 lying around or know where to source decent ones?
    Any tips on ECC35 tubes?
    I'm not very familiar with that tube.
     
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    sweet @bazelio i bet that tool could be used to detect fake boobies (cooler in the center would be my guess) but then you'd have to walk around aiming it at women's chests... awkward...

    glad my suggestion to use ZDS as an amp and an egg frier was valid :)
     
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    Anyone using their Zana as a pre-amp too?

    My ZDS should be coming within a month and I plan to use the pre outs hooked up to mono blocks and powered sub. How does switching between speakers and headphones work?
     
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    I know @Mikoss does. It outputs to both if I remember correctly as I was he was listening to his headphones out of his receiver and I was listening to mine out of the ZD (he's a nice guy like that!) at the same time. I'm sure he can answer more direct questions for you though as I am not sure if this would have changed at all between versions.
     
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    Yeppers. As @BrettMatthews said, the headamp and pre-out are active as long as the ZD is powered up. The volume control does double duty, and on the ZD, it works best for me doing pre duty just around 12 o'clock. (Anything more is too hot for my amp and causes distortion.)

    If you're listening to both at the same time, I normally sit the ZD volume around 9pm for headphones, so the amp has to be turned up much louder.

    It also does not pass through to the pre-out when powered off, and there is no way to mute the headphones, or pre-out, short of unplugging the cables.
     
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    Wonderful news, thank you both!

    It looks like I will have to keep my amp/subwoofer powered off or plugged when I only want to use headphones but that's not a major issue for me.

    I've heard the Zana is just as good of a preamp as it is a headphone amp so I'm excited to incorporate it to both systems:D
     
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    I really love this amp. It's my high end amp and I thought it would be a big downgrade from where I wanted to be before there were restrictions on my spending.

    I'm glad to be proven wrong :). Such a lovely amp and so incredibly engaging. I am nervous about hearing it with the Utopia as I'm unsure if I'll be able to resist if the pairing is as divine as people say.
     
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    And to think I have my ZDS sitting right next to my power amp and not even bothering to read the "Pre Out" ...sheesh...thanks guys...
     
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    Part of the appeal of the ZDS for me is its dual function as a headphone amp and high end tube buffer preamp. The price suddenly doesn't seem so bad when it saves me from having to buy an standalone pre for my speaker rig.

    Same logical applies to the guys powering full range speakers with a EC 4-45 or 2a3mkIV. If I had high efficiency speakers it would have made more sense to pick one of those TOTL amps that does everything instead of buying a separate 'lower tier' head amp and speaker amp that comes out to the same cost in the end. I'm sure those features are the major deciding factor for many people who try to think that far ahead.
     
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    In a tropical country wherein the room temperature could be anywhere between 86-94 Fahrenheit (30-34 Celsius), would an amp that gets really hot like this one not be advisable? Or, it should be completely fine as long as you could live with it further heating up the room?
     
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    I've used it in India (right on the east coast) for over a year now. No ill effects at all. Just make sure there is plenty of ventilation. However, in my case, except for 3 months, I do turn my air-conditioning on whenever i use the amp.
     

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