Jolida Fx10

I purchased some Sylvania JAN 6BQ5's and put them in my FX10. I am fairly new to tubes, but they don't look the same when the amp is running. On a couple of them I can see some red glow on the plate on one side or the other. It's fairly small. One tube had this glow was much brighter and larger.

Is that normal?

I also bought 2 Telefunkin preamp tubes (12AX7's). they look like the JJ Teslas I took out.

Also mine came upgraded with JJ tubes. The stock EH's are sitting there as back up.

hi- i wish amp had headphone jack. then it would be a knockout!

Sfar, yes the stock 12AX7s are indeed Electro Harmonix. The EL84s are Tung Sol.

Thanks, Pizzatheorem. Mine came with Electro Harmonix tubes all around.

I've picked up some alternative tubes that I've been really happy with. I traded some nice El-34's from another amp for a selection of vintage RCA and Tung-Sol 12ax7's and some re-issue Tung-Sol's, all of which sound better to me than the stock Electro Harmonix tubes.

I'm running some Russian 6P14P-EV's in place of the EL-84's and those have been a nice surprise. I also picked up a quad of old Brimar El-84's that sound wonderful but I'm saving those for 'special' times, which means I'll probably never get around to using them.

I'm still extremely happy with the FX10. With a MacBook Pro feeding a Nuforce uDAC and on to the FX10, then to the JohnBlue JB3's it's a very satisfying office system.

Sorry, I had it backwards. The stock 12AX7s are TS and the stock EL84s are EH in my new FX10. However, I had a short email conversation with Jolida and Michael said the stock tubes were all EH.
Don't have my system up and running yet, but I too will be playing files from a laptop and through a DAC (HRT Music Streamer II). The speakers will be open baffle speakers with high sensitivity drivers. I may also get a chance to directly compare the FX10 to the 302BRC which should be revealing. I'll report back here if that happens.