Tube Ring on tube preamp


I want to know if there would be an improvement using "Duende Criatura" (made with teflon and titanium), over the standard audioresearch black tube rings, on 6H30 tube ?
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Showing 1 response by georgehifi


Red Silicon ones are what I used thick as possible.
Get your size here (ebay), remember not too tight or they will over time dent the tube glass, use 1 2 or 3 per tube. And remember the smaller tubes input, phase splitter, drivers are the ones that can be more micro-phonic.

To test which are micro-phonic, raise the volume to normal (no music playing) and gently flick each tube with your finger nail, and you’ll hear the micro-phonic one/s in the the speaker quite easily.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Silicon+O+Rings&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=Silicon+%22O%22+Rings

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.Xred+O+Rings.TRS1&_nkw=red+O+Rings&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=red+%22O%22+Rings

Forget about expensive BS "audio" ones.

Cheers George