I don't think you read my posts...

Posted by Vinyl Valet (A) on February 3, 2015 at 13:34:20

In Reply to: RE: Well, that didn't take very long... posted by Jim McShane on February 3, 2015 at 12:29:52:

I described my cleaning and testing procedure in great detail. Maybe you're just trying to stress your point. You do it often and with good reason. Believe me, many folks, including myself, very much appreciate your generous sharing of information on this forum.

Okay, I just finished the same experiment on V2 of the Cole. Same results, just not as loud (one less gain stage). And three of these four failures came from the Herron, each from a different position. So I would say that it would be quite a coincidence that the same pin(s) in five different tube positions from two different components are all still dirty or whatever after I cleaned them.

There is absolutely no doubt, after this discussion, that five of the twelve new Genalex 6922 tubes have failed in less than 400 hours. The fact that you have sold 1000s without any returns for this issue is somewhat confounding. Perhaps it's because this type of failure occurs over time, well after any reasonable return period. None of the bad tubes failed in less than 100 hours, which, with my listening habits, would be a couple of months at the earliest.

All this talk and still no clue as to what's going on. My conclusion, based on my experience, is that these tubes are not very reliable. Sad, because they sound great. Prior to these I used new production EH 6922 tubes in the Herron. Never had this type of failure. Very reliable but not nearly as good sounding as the Genalex in this application.
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Topic - Genalex Gold Lion 6922 - Vinyl Valet 17:45:50 02/02/15 (31)

Conclusion: 50% failure rate for noise in 400 hours or less - Vinyl Valet 15:54:38 02/05/15 (0)

RE: Genalex Gold Lion 6922 - Mike B. 10:37:49 02/04/15 (0)

Yup, noisy. - Daverz 04:15:29 02/04/15 (0)

RE: Genalex Gold Lion 6922 - Michael Samra 14:50:49 02/03/15 (12)

Thank you... - Vinyl Valet 05:45:52 02/04/15 (7)

Test Results... - Vinyl Valet 15:50:54 02/05/15 (6)

RE: Test Results... - Jim McShane 18:08:50 02/06/15 (4)

Thank you Jim... - Vinyl Valet 08:00:43 02/07/15 (3)

RE: Thank you Jim... - Jim McShane 12:02:40 02/07/15 (2)

RE: Thank you Jim... - btselects 13:37:25 02/08/15 (1)

RE: Thank you Jim... - Jim McShane 13:55:01 02/08/15 (0)

RE: Test Results... - Sondek 20:31:21 02/05/15 (0)

Thinking same thing - FenderLover 17:52:09 02/03/15 (3)

Neither of these units run the tubes hard... - Vinyl Valet 05:47:51 02/04/15 (1)

ok. thanks. - FenderLover 07:13:56 02/04/15 (0)

RE: Thinking same thing - Michael Samra 04:14:48 02/04/15 (0)

Noise - FenderLover 20:44:00 02/02/15 (13)

Hiss - Vinyl Valet 04:37:34 02/03/15 (11)

RE: Hiss - Mendel 06:37:18 02/03/15 (10)

RE: Hiss - Vinyl Valet 06:53:30 02/03/15 (9)

RE: Hiss - Jim McShane 10:49:28 02/03/15 (6)

RE: Hiss - Vinyl Valet 11:51:01 02/03/15 (5)

Well, that didn't take very long... - Vinyl Valet 12:17:08 02/03/15 (4)

RE: Well, that didn't take very long... - Michael Samra 15:17:01 02/03/15 (0)

RE: Well, that didn't take very long... - Jim McShane 12:29:52 02/03/15 (2)

I don't think you read my posts... - Vinyl Valet 13:34:20 02/03/15 (1)

RE: I don't think you read my posts... - Jim McShane 14:30:32 02/03/15 (0)

RE: Hiss - Mendel 07:11:15 02/03/15 (1)

RE: Hiss - Vinyl Valet 07:27:54 02/03/15 (0)

RE: Noise - petercapo 21:01:31 02/02/15 (0)

RE: Genalex Gold Lion 6922 - petercapo 20:19:39 02/02/15 (0)

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I don't think you read my posts... - Vinyl Valet 13:34:20 02/03/15 (1)

RE: I don't think you read my posts... - Jim McShane 14:30:32 02/03/15 (0)

I don't think you read my posts...

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