ARC VS110 tubes


I will be changing my tubes on my VS110 in the near future. Unit is 1.5 years old and bought new from an ARC reseller. Should I buy factory tubes from my ARC dealer or the same model from some other tube vendor (such as TheTubeStore.com). I was told that factory tubes are perfectly balanced for my amp... not so with after market vendors. BTW I have no interest in tube rolling at this time.

I noticed that when buying from ARC tubes are more than twice the price than online vendors, why is that so?

Thanks for your reply
redsectora

Showing 1 response by weiserb

ARC does some testing for noise etc before selling tubes. They are an audio manufacturer not a tube dealer, so they charge more if you got to them for tubes. For less expensive tested tubes I use upscaleaudio.com

There are cheaper tube dealers out there but Kevin at upscale is pretty thorough in testing