Just for the sake of clarity, Upscale Audio sells the vast majority of its tubes to anybody. That means any Mullard, Amperex, Telefunken, etc. The exception is 6DJ8, 6922, 7308, and 6SN7 or 6SL7 types.
Those are reserved for people that have bought their BAT or whatever brand of preamp from us, and yesterday I had to say no a total of six times, which believe it or not takes a bit of time. It stinks of course as we are here to offer stuff, not to say no.
Everything else is open to anyone. There is still a list of types with a description of sonics in some cases that some folks find helpful.
On the preamp, the VK-30 is very linear sounding, the VK-200 is a smidge relaxed. If your tubes are worn out, which they may be, your system will sound lousy because you have electrostatics which don't have the type of extension at the tip tp the way other speakers do.
Som people would treasure that relaxed sound, but it is not for you. So to fix it, get new tubes that have extension or an up-front midrange, MAYBE get an amp that is vivid in the mids like an older Muse 100 or 150 monos, or change the speakers. The Nordost are the right ticket. I don't know the speaker cable.
It's about balance.
Those are reserved for people that have bought their BAT or whatever brand of preamp from us, and yesterday I had to say no a total of six times, which believe it or not takes a bit of time. It stinks of course as we are here to offer stuff, not to say no.
Everything else is open to anyone. There is still a list of types with a description of sonics in some cases that some folks find helpful.
On the preamp, the VK-30 is very linear sounding, the VK-200 is a smidge relaxed. If your tubes are worn out, which they may be, your system will sound lousy because you have electrostatics which don't have the type of extension at the tip tp the way other speakers do.
Som people would treasure that relaxed sound, but it is not for you. So to fix it, get new tubes that have extension or an up-front midrange, MAYBE get an amp that is vivid in the mids like an older Muse 100 or 150 monos, or change the speakers. The Nordost are the right ticket. I don't know the speaker cable.
It's about balance.