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| How To Match Power Tubes dennis, Matching power tubes the easy way is to get a tube adapter that can measure PLATE CURRENT and plug directly to your amplifier,this is the most accurate since transformer winding differ in impedance between tubes in Class AB amplifier 2-... | |
| Passive Preamps If you're a purist audiophile this is the to go.Unaltered signal and very transparent. | |
| 6SN7 tube question Multimeter will not do the job,you need a good Tube Tester that can measure transconductance and plate current besides shorts,hum,noise and microphonic. | |
| CHINESE tubes? There is no way that I will buy an Ongako and plug in Chinese 211 | |
| 6SN7 tube question You are looking for a platinum matched tubes which are balance in Gm & Ip, non-microphonic and very low noise.It's worth the money if your gear is in push pull configuration,but if it's in cascade,you just need a very low noise and non-micro... | |
| Top Ten Tuners of all Time?? It's hard to say which is better unless you A/B them.I have 15 tuners.The SS are somewhat cloudy,tube are very transparent and 3-Dimensional.Bogen and Pilot seems to be my fav.If problem of drift and noise in changing station is fixed,they are e... | |
| The New Western Electric 845 Replicas Chinese tubes,I will never use any of them. | |
| Beware of the prolieration of Counterfeit Tubes? Use magnifying glass to look for those deltas and diamonds. | |
| 6SN7 tube question There are octal adapter with all pin out, with your amp/preamp switch off,plug the adapter and plug your tube on top of the adapter.Use alligator clip on your multimeter's volt AC and clip them the pin 7 & 8.switch on your equipment and if th... | |
| Review: Dodd Audio MK II 120 wpc w/sonicap upgrade Tube amp A lot of audiophiles tend to be excited about sound of the tube gear they just acquire/purchase without any comparison. | |
| 6sn7 or 6sl7 FALSE?,Maybe you haven't tried but I've been doing this for almost 10 years and not a single tube fail,a living proof.BTW,my preamp has stock 12ax7. | |
| What do the different tube amp types mean? Ralph,I think Realdeal is right,I also made an OTL using single KR52B,5R4GYB tube rectified with 600V on the plate.,no feedback and what a transparency. | |
| 6sn7 or 6sl7 Hi,You can plug in any 6sn7 gt,gtb,gta wgt,w,& A / 5692/VT 231 or 6sL7 / 6SU7. without any problem with your amp or preamp,I been doing these any time and I even have an adapter for 12AX7/12AU7/12AT7/12BZ7 to the 8BD BASE socket and they wor... | |
| 6SN7 tube question A good 6sn7 with transconductance and plate current within 10% or less triode-triode ,and at least 30% higher than the minimum,not microphonic and low noise is a good candidate bu do not compare brand of 6sn7 tubes if their Gm & Ip are not w... | |
| SET vs OTL Ralph,Bruce has it and probably a lot of DIY OTL.Charles,If ever there is a fest,we could find a way to A-B things out.. |