TADAC owners - which best 12au7 tubes?


TADAC owners. Which 12au7 tubes have you /tried used to replace the stock chinese tubes?
What has been your listening experience with the ones used?
Which tube do you find gives the best performance?
Your comments are appreciated!
myraj
I bought a TADAC from a fellow gonner and he had an extra set of Electro Harmonics as well as the stock tubes. Both sounded OK, but I figured things could sound better. I just put in a pair of the French Mazda tubes and I am very impressed (scratch that- extremely impressed) with what they have done for this DAC. Everything has improved after putting in the Mazda tubes- soundstage, macro and micro dynamics as well as being more musical.

Before I was getting some distortion in the vocals on certain recordings I believe the term is called microphony.Please forgive me if I got the term wrong this is my first go at tube gear. Anyway the distortion is now eliminated after putting in the Mazdas.
I bought 1962 Same Dated telefunken smooth here on Audiogon. What I noticed immediately was more pronounced and nuanced bass response. Everything sounds great but without going back and forth between tubes I can't describe the differences beyond the obvious improvement in bass in the initial listening. It's so good now, I no longer long for tube-rolling.... but when I get bored later, I imagine I may give another tube a chance - just for fun.
I have some RCA blackplates that have made a big improvement over the stock chinese. Another very nice tweak is the Herbie Audio Lab dampners. I now have a much cleaner top end! The preamp ultrasonic 9's. You have to cut them in half though so they can sit on top of the tubes.
Mazda (RT/RTC) are all incredible, across all types. It's uncanny really. I have some square getter wing plate 12AU7s I can't wait to roll into my new DAC.
I am using black glass Tung Sol's, sound great! I tried them after first trying standard NOS Tung Sol's which sounded so nice and clean, I figured the black glass variant was worth a try. Yes very nice vocals and clean sounding!

I noticed after getting rid of the stock Chinese tubes that the Tubiness knob was clean sounding through all it's range, and not distorting as it was with the original tubes.