Original Mullards are hard to find, some dealers are selling old and used 4004s with labels and Nos saying that are new. Better get them from someone you trust.
How are Mullards supposed to sound?
System: Rogers Studio 7, Prima Luna Prologue One, Marantz SA-8003
The stock (Chinese?) tubes in my Prima Luna Prologue One finally wore out after two years. The stock tubes sounded really excellent.
I decided to "upgrade." First to Electro-Harmonix tubes, which sounded decent but not as good as the stock tubes, and now to Mullards.
I know that tubes take a little while to "burn-in" but these Mullards sound awful.
They have a hard, clangy, echoing (microphonic) quality that none of the other tubes ever had. The soundstage seems to have receded backwards by a hundred feet. Everything sounds small and far away.
Is this how Mullards sound? I thought they were supposed to sound romantic. Is this all part of the "burn-in" process?
The stock (Chinese?) tubes in my Prima Luna Prologue One finally wore out after two years. The stock tubes sounded really excellent.
I decided to "upgrade." First to Electro-Harmonix tubes, which sounded decent but not as good as the stock tubes, and now to Mullards.
I know that tubes take a little while to "burn-in" but these Mullards sound awful.
They have a hard, clangy, echoing (microphonic) quality that none of the other tubes ever had. The soundstage seems to have receded backwards by a hundred feet. Everything sounds small and far away.
Is this how Mullards sound? I thought they were supposed to sound romantic. Is this all part of the "burn-in" process?