Hi All,
I am from the tube guitar world now dabbling with HIFI. I have a successful Budgie SE under belt but I have a couple question as I choose my next project and review the builds of others.
1) Grounding of shielded wire- I getting conflicting information on this- the guitar gurus are telling me to always ground one end of a shield wire (inputs for example) and I am looking at photos of some of the builds of HIFI here and not seeing this done. I have personally built both ways and I not sure If I can tell/hear a difference...
2) I had great success adding a 3.5 mm input for a smartphone on my Budgie SE with the 12ax7 preamp- will a 6SL7 (as in the Clementine) also work well with the input from a smartphone like a Droid or Iphone?
Thanks