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Mullard EL37/6L6GC Tube Rolling Question
Can you switch to pentode mode and retest?  
NOS EL34 becoming extinct
I tried new Tung Sol EL34B and found them very musical if not a bit midband forward. I think they needed more time to burn in but went back to my 7581A which are pretty much perfect. GT tubes are not great in audio gear. Gold Lion KT77 do have a s... 
Splitting line level out from preamp, versus using 2nd set of outputs
Why are you trying to run 2 amplifiers?  
Buyer Beware
Not sure you've much to stand on after buying them used from third parties. Is it possible the internal DAC volume doesn't work with USB?   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Jodi Miller - Queen Of The House (Capitol 1965) Doc Evans And His Dixieland Band - Muskrat Ramble (Audiophile 1959) Lost Nation String Band - Lost Nation String Band (Dodo 1982) Martha Davis And Her Torrid Trio - You're On The Right Track Baby ... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Woodstock Mountains - More Music From Mud Acres (Rounder 1977) Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, Ed Trickett - The Ways Of Man (Folk-Legacy 1978) Solid recordings and good music. Sounds better than almost everything I've ever heard at shows.   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Hey @slipknot1 –over 20 years on this thread!   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Singleton Palmer and His Dixieland Band - Dixie By Gaslight (Norman 1961) I love early recordings of Dixieland jazz–this one is wonderful–recorded live and sounding superb on the idler.  
Garrard 301 - Project
@lalitk Great. Give them a few days to settle in before judging.   
Garrard 301 - Project
I made that suggestion months ago!  noromance 12-04-2024 at 12:16am  I haven’t heard an amp that hasn’t been improved by rolling in old production Telefunken ECC83/12AX7.  
Used audio market appears to be collapsing
+1 @cleeds   
AUDIO SHOWS! WHAT would you like to see more of there. Better brands, hours etc?
Definitely later hours. But it's not fair on the workers.  
Can using a bad tube hurt an amplifier?
Yes and no. The tube can just fail and stop working with no other symptoms, or it can fail and cause a fuse to blow, or burn up a resistor, or destroy an output transformer. It depends on the amp. For what it's worth there are millions of tubes an... 
Rega reference belt disappointment
Try turning it inside out and retesting.   
Would a stereo Sim Audio Moon 861 amp be as powerful as 2 McIntosh 611 monoblock amps?
You won't notice on 91dB sensitivity speakers. You’ll be blown across the room before those amps hit 20% of their output power.