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Tube rolling in the Cary SLI-80 Signature

Interested in hearing about your experience with rolling tubes in the Cary SLI-80 Signature -- different new-manufacture and NOS -- especially at it relates to Merlin TSM-MMI monitors. Also, tube rolling in the Ars Sonum Filarmonia. Are NOS a marked or marginal improvement, and if so, how so?
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brf
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I use a Cary SLI-80 in a secondary system with Merlin TSM_MM and I found this tube compliment to work very well and is very musical.

2 ea - Amperex 7308 Input Buffer Preamp
2 ea - Sylvania 1952 6SN7GT "Bad Boys" Pre Driver/Phase Inverter or Russian metal base 1578
4 ea - Re-Issue Gold Lion KT88 Output Tubes
2 ea - GE 5U4 Rectifiers

I run the amp in triode mode and it sound is very balanced with the Merlins.
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