Best modern 6550 tube for ARC per-amp


There are a lot of modern 6550 tube in the market such as Reissue Tung-Sol 6550,  GE-6550A (Green letter), Svetlana 6550, Russia Gold Lion 6550/KT88........etc.  What is the best modern 6550 tube for ARC per-amp in your opinion?  (PS: GE 6550A is not newly made but still a lot in the market).

I used to own a NOS black plate 3 holes Tung-Sol 6550 but which has leak and now I’m using the stock Svetlana 6550. I want to buy a nice sound 6550 for my ARC Ref 6 and my stock Svetlana 6550 will be used as spare. Will not consider NOS black -plate Tung-Sol again because of pricy and not sure the condition.


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Showing 2 responses by oldhvymec

I’m in the " all tubes matter " column. Not that it has to be some humpty dumpty valve.. A good "one" NEVER hurts.. The quality of the valve and the construct.... OH YEA.. it matters... Super rare NOS NO. High quality, stable, zero noise, ALL go a long ways though...

Just a thought...

Regards
your $15,000 p-o-s minnesota made linestage has a sucky, marginal PS circuit that requires a gold-plated, absolutely best sounding tube (when used in a totally different application) to sound its best!!! yes -- be sure to get your money’s worth now... remember, we can’t take it with we when we expire, right?

now excuse me, need to join my fellow parrots as we listen to some birdland :)

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Why the smiley face at the end? It’s obvious to me you’re being "Mr Know it all". You do have a way of just sounding like a special JERK... Fancy comebacks and all.
YUP That's you, Mr. Yourassholyness, I bow to your crappy reasoning, but I’ll pass on the rude delivery. You need to learn some manners, they don’t cost, they only pay... We can really get nasty if you want....I prefer you learn to be a Gentleman, not a Jerk... Your call.. Your information is overshadowed buy your fragrant continual sarcasm, you keep spewing, at anyone and anyone will do"

Non of the 15,000.00 comment or the sucky PS statement were called for... Learn some figgin’ manners.. No why not, BUT how can we....

Broken record.. Eeyore  or Winnie the Pooh