Adjusting tubes for bias and other tube hassles


OK I'm a newbie here and am thinking about jumping into tubes. (Have sent final tuition payemnt to last child's college.) Am concerned about the hassle of such things as "adjusting for bias," etc. that I've read about. Is it anything that a basically non-handy person has to worry about?
dherzog

Showing 1 response by cytocycle

Lots of tube preamps don't require manual biasing. If a tube gets noisy switch sides to determine which tube is noisy, and then replace.

Also typically you should warm up tube amps about 30 minutes before biasing.

Lamm recommends a Fluke meters (Specific models on their website) because cheap Multimeters are not accurate enough. My Music Reference RM9 has bias lights built-in which made life really easy!