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In Reply to: RE: Current KT88 with least bass bloat posted by ral on August 20, 2016 at 16:17:48
Where do we stand these days in terms of a linear sounding, current production KT88 without excessive upper-bass/lower-mid bloat?
Those tubes you mention are very good..There is also the Shuggie Treasures are great tubes as well. The Genelex Reissue Gold Lions are always a crowd favorite and you can alter the sound with your driver tubes.
I realize all this will be partially amp dependent. I have Rogue M180s with KT120 tubes, but it's too solid-state sounding for me. (Never thought I'd say that!) I tried some JJ KT88 but those have the "bloat."
I would work with the smaller tubes in the amp because that will help with a more influential change..If you can't get it with tubes,you may need to upgrade the coupling caps in your amps.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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I agree with Mike. It will be a lot cheaper to play with input tubes and capacitors than octets of tubes.
I have not tried the Treasure KT88's but the KT66z tubes are 'richer' than the GL KT66.
Frihed has made some excellent observations regarding 6550s which are very dynamic, hard hitting tubes which leave no time for bloat. To me they are not musical so I don't use them. I use the current standard - the Russian Gold Lion KT-88s. I remember the JJ's differently than Mike and thought they `were very clean sounding, but I could be wrong it has been a while.
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