This is becoming a practice in AI preamps, though they only use 4 6922's (two in the phono and two on the line). I set a friend up (who has a Mod3a) with old production Russian 6922's (from ATSI which are better than the recent Sovteks) and pair of NOS Siemens E88CC's (which failed within 4 months). Now I have a pair of NOS Siemens 7dj8's for him to try with the Russian tubes. We will see how this goes, though people at AA have had good results with this combo and it looks promising. I do not know what the duty of your (8) 6922's are and would suggest talking to BAT about it.
Mixing new and NOS tubes OK?
I am about to retube my BAT VKP5 phono pre and was wondering if mixing NOS and New tubes is OK. It has (8) 6922 type tubes. If money and availability were no object, I'd probably use all NOS tubes. However, most of the sonic qualities comes from the first stage so I'm considering using some premium NOS Amperex 7308s for the first stage and Sovtek 6922s for the rest.
Is there any reason not to do this?
Is there any reason not to do this?