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| McIntosh MC-2301 Tube Replacements Thanks for your thoughts. The amps are 4 years old and they have the original Mcintosh tubes. I have heard that the Gold Lions are a good choice, but I keep reading about reliability problems with those tubes. What is your experience? Any fail... | |
| Which 6c33c-b tubes for BAT REX monoblocks ? Interesting. Thanks for the input. | |
| Tube rolling question Got it. Thanks for your help. | |
| BAT amp users - any fuse recommendations? I use Synergistic Research Black fuses in my Rex Monoblocks, Rex preamp and I love them. I think they are worth the relatively modest investment. | |
| When is it time to consider adding a SUT? gtaphile, FWIW, I'm using an ARC Ref 2SE with a Lyra Skala cartridge (0.5mv) and while there is enough gain using the high gain setting, I am much happier since I've added an Ortofon Verto SUT. With the SUT, the dynamics, detail and headroom are... | |
| Audiophile Club In South East Florida. I live in Wellington and I am interested in meeting. | |
| My "ah-ha" moment with NOS tubes... FWIW, I just replaced the orange label Amperex 7308s that I was using in my BAT Phono with current production Genalex 6922s from Jim McShane and I am very pleased. | |
| Experience w/ 40-75 watt amps on Dunlavy IVs I used a BAT VK-60 and BAT VK-5i with my Dunlavy SC-IVs and the sound was fabulous! The room was 14' X 22' and I never felt that I needed more power. Hope this helps. | |
| BAT VK-P10SE Owners -- What NOS tubes? Thanks for the response. I will try the 6h8cs. However, I thought that you only had to bias the 6922s. Do you have to rebias when you replace the 6sn7s as well? | |
| Do BAT preamps run HOT? They run extremely hot. From my experience, this is normal. I have a VK-51SE and originally placed it on the bottom shelf of my rack. After a few days, the left channel was not playing. After I checked that all the tubes were working, I placed it ... |