PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread

@alightronics 

I just bought a used PS Audio preamp that came with three pairs of PSVANE 12au7 Art series tubes. One pair was in the preamp and the other two pair were still in their boxes. All of the tubes were noisy and within a few weeks, 5 out of the six tubes started making clicking noises. There is nothing I can see happening and there I can see wrong with the tubes, but I know that doesn’t mean much.  Anyway, I bought a pair of Gold Lions and they have been working fine for almost four months now.

@jetter 

Viva tubes is where mine came from as well.

Sigh

@jetter 

Who knows,@alightronics might be able to help us out? Either way, I just ordered some NOS RCA clear tops from Brent Jesse to try.

@alightronics 

Hello,

The seller says the tubes in preamp only had a couple hundred hours on them and the hour meter in the preamp confirmed it. He also said that the other four tubes were new. When the first tube started clicking, I swapped the left and right tubes and the clicking switched sides. Over the next couple weeks, the same thing happened with five of the six tubes. The preamp originally came with Gold Lion’s, so I ordered a pair and they have been working just fine for four months now.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Jim

@alightronics 

As I have said before, I bought the preamp used. The original tubes that came with the preamp were Gold Lions and are supposed to last 2000-4000 hours.

The new tubes that were in it were12au7’, PSVANE and the new tubes in the boxes were PSVANE boxes with VivaTube sticker on one side. Because I don’t have any documentation, I never called VivaTube.

Thanks again for your help.

@alightronics 

I forgot to say that I purchased the preamp from an individual, not a company.

Jim