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KT-120 tubes vs Gold Lion KT88's

Hi everyone I have recently purchased my first set of kt-120 tubes
for my cary cad-120s amp and I must say what a difference especially in techno music! The bass just goes so low, though I need a second set of tubes for once these end there life. Instead of scrambling cash for a new set last minute. I was thinking of getting gold lion kt-88 since such praise from them. And would like to try them out for the fun of it. How do the gold lions compare to the tung-sol
kt-120s?
jakecanada

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wolf_garcia
6,751 posts
 
Forget the KT120s and jump on a set of KT150s (not literally as pesky glass shards can get in your soup)…simply more of the same gusto as the 120s, but (in my amp anyway) effortless clarity in a great sounding tube that also looks like a pickle, which supposedly helps tame microphonics…ever heard a microphonic pickle? No? I rest my case. Another often rested case regards the paranoia about excessive heater current draw which seems unfounded as no case of amp destruction from this has been reported anywhere…and I've been looking out for this…ever vigilant.
wolf_garcia
6,751 posts
 
I admit I was initially put off by 150s…the pickle shape reminded me of a building in London. I got over it.
wolf_garcia
6,751 posts
 
I have had an ongoing extremely scientific and formal survey of this issue (upgrading an amp to handle the instantly destructive utterly dangerous death hazard of 120s or 150s needing heater juice that will instantly destroy the amp, and all life within 11 feet) using informal and clearly amoral studies of data and nearly incoherent blather here and elsewhere. The results indicate nobody has experienced this issue and lived to tell about it…I had KT120s in my trusty 502p for nearly 3 years…replaced with KT150 last December with no issues except burnt fingers from adjusting the blinky light bias screws. The current score in my survey is as follows:

No issue with unmodded amp using 120s or 150s: 317,412.

Issue with catastrophic amp failure after which there is no reason to ever trust in data from posts like this one: 0 (zero)

Keep checking here for updates on this survey.
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