oddiofyl
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| Does remote control degrade the sound of tube preamps? CJ has been using relay / resistive ladder volume since the CT 6 maybe earlier. It is proven and in my opinion better than electronic volume controls like the ones CJ used when they built McCormack preamps. Those were a Burr Brown volume chip, ... | |
| Rogue Hybrid Integrated fine, then one channel silent For what it's worth I am using g JJ 12au7 Gold pin in my preamp and they sound excellent. | |
| Rogue Hybrid Integrated fine, then one channel silent Unfortunately that is one of the pitfalls of NOS tubes. In theory , they should have infinite shelf life because the parts are in a vacuum. Sometimes a tube will loose vacuum , but in that case the silver getter flashing usually will turn a wh... | |
| 12AT7 / 12AU7 Check out dBtubes.com in Canada. I bought some NOS JAN GE 6688 tubes and they were cheap. They have many 12at7 and 12au7 for reasonable prices. They are a good value compared to 12ax7 NOS . About 1/10 the price as holy grail 12ax7 nos. | |
| Disappointing short life of NOS preamp tube I had a pair of 1964 Mazda 6dj8 that came from Brent Jessee and they were matched section, matched pair. They were some of the best sounding tubes I have ever owned. Unreal tone , unfortunately the preamp they went in is tough on tubes so they... | |
| Concerning high end audio names in new cars I don't mind crappy stereos in cars.... my company mini van has a mediocre stereo . The company E250 vans have AM/FM with a 5" full range speaker in each door. It's pretty bad. But I don't have a car payment, or pay for gas, insurance, and r... | |
| Audio Research 150.2 or 300.2..... Never owned one, heard a 150.2 years ago when I was looking at amps. Sounded very good. A few years later I almost bought one used and heard they couldn't repair them due to no modules. Not sure if that is still true but it scared me away. | |
| Why are people paying these stupid tube prices? I’ll never buy from Viva….not that they even care | |
| Why are people paying these stupid tube prices? There is a Darkstar amp for sale local to me…. Comes with hundreds of dollars worth of “NOS” tubes …. $350 Makes no sense to use unobtainium holy grail tubes in stuff like like that ….not being snobby, just practical. | |
| Why are people paying these stupid tube prices? oddiofyl "Maybe if people didn’t buy $200 headphone amps and burn up rare tubes for mediocre sound we wouldn’t have this problem" I believe Marie Antoinette was of the same opinion when she said...... "Let them eat cake." This sort of arro... | |
| Legacy Vs Modern For $200 what do you have to lose? | |
| Why are people paying these stupid tube prices? It was sarcasm, but if you visit any headphone site you will see people rolling precious nos into chi fi amps..... | |
| Why are people paying these stupid tube prices? I'm not expecting WE tubes to be inexpensive, I just bought two pair of 300b. What I do expect is for them to be of high quality. | |
| Why are people paying these stupid tube prices? Maybe if people didn’t buy $200 headphone amps and burn up rare tubes for mediocre sound we wouldn’t have this problem | |
| Why are people paying these stupid tube prices? Only common, and desirable tubes are being gouged.. My forthcoming amp uses e180f for the driver / input position, I just picked up a pair of NOS Telefunken for $150. A lot , sure , but imagine if they were CCA or 12ax7? I bought Mullard ... |