6sn7 to 6922 adapter: good idea or bad idea?


I was messing around on tubedepots website, and when I put in 6sn7 as a serach enginge, these adapters came up to put into a 6922 socket so the 6SN7 could be used.

I would be using a pair of them in front of a Cary v12 (Cary calls them the "driver + input" tubes). There is plent of room on the amp  where those tubes would be going.  I have several pairs of tested good vintage 6SN7s I could roll in those sockets, and that's why the adapters caught my interest.

 

immatthewj

Showing 2 responses by paulcreed

I used Garage 1217 6922 and 6sn7 adapters with great results in a couple MHDT dac’s. 
 

The 6sn7 and 6922 tube replaced the 5670 tube and sounded very nice in comparison. I had a large stash of very nice 6922 and 6sn7’s and was told by manufacture it was okay to run them so why not, but they were only tube buffers. 
 

Not sure I would feel comfortable in a preamp  unless amp manufacture could guarantee with no issue, even then would be a little skeptical. 
 

I found the Garage 1217 adapters to be very high quality ceramic sockets and gold plated pins.

I would be very cautious but if it’s a go by Cary look at Garage 1217 tube adapters vey nice quality. If you buy from tube depot or Garage 1217 make sure you don’t push the adapter tube pins to far down in the amps tube sockets, just make sure you don’t bottom it out you can damage the wire connecting to the amps tube socket.