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In Reply to: RE: posted by Craiger56 on March 18, 2014 at 08:28:30
I often wondered the same, why not GL KT88s over JJs when they became available? Clearly the marketplace favored the GL reissues.I do speculate...Maybe he had good numbers or JJs in stock, tested and screened, so with time & capital tied up he wanted to wait for a depletion of his tube shelf before ordering replacements. My guess is manufactures order in large quantities, so he needed to burn some off, no pun intended. LOL. Of course I'm only speculating here.
You are most welcome. I will let you know(see you also have V4s) if I go down the TS KT150 road, probably will, and definatley from Mike S when I do. I'm on year 3 with the JJs and they hold bias perfectly but I believe it's only a matter of time, and I don't want to be caught without any replacements. For sure they have degraded, I do run them daily and for long periods, so they surely are not as clean sounding as they were new. That or my audio nervosa will creep in and the TSs will be the only way to calm the beast. ;)
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Mike has great testing. Perhaps his numbers are smaller so he is able to do that, but whatever the reason I do know that Mike has two Textronics curve tracers and has built a custom jig to burn in his tubes (I have a vague memory from visiting his factory in Reno of a jug with something like 48 tubes burning in at a time).
Mike explained to me that after decades of checking and matching tubes, he can pretty much weed out tubes which will have premature failure. If the base line tubes are inexpensive enough, he will buy large lots and simply weed them out.
That would explain why his Chinese and JJ tubes actually give very little problems.
yMMV of course
KT100, 120 , 150 .... what does come next? KT200?N.
The times, they are changing...
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