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In Reply to: RE: 6SN7 tube posted by cpotl on January 07, 2015 at 08:01:06
I think personal experience has something to do with it. I tend to rely on my experience of personal use of a product, combined with others that have seen the same results. Tube rolling for me, has been hit and miss. I have followed the forum leads, some panned out, some did not. However, it is my experience that, on average, most congrugate info is accurate. Reusing the tubes I have purchased, I can generally tell soon after warmup why the tube was placed in the little used box as opposed to my rotate stock box. I was in a flight electronics tech waaaaayyy back in the early 1960's, was trained on tubes just as solid state was coming into it's own. Now you want to be confused that was the time to do it. Still in school, got tube theory locked down tight, then go to the next school and instead of electron flow thru the tube, we now have hole flow in the reverse direction, bla bla bla, I learned to drink right after that. But I think you have to trust to some extent, sincere people that want to help, as I have seen here on this forum, to use their experiences to help guide the way. I appreciate people that will take the time to give advice, you can usually see or tell the ones that just want to talk that don't have the knowledge. Sorry for the long wind, got a good nights sleep for a change! One more question if I may, I have purchase many tubes from this reseller on Ebay, and wondered if anyone had any experience with this tube.
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"But I think you have to trust to some extent, sincere people that want to help, as I have seen here on this forum, to use their experiences to help guide the way...."
Yes, I'm not in any way doubting their sincerity. I'm just wondering to what extent they may be finding which tubes are better matched to their specific amplifier, with its specific choices for resistor values, etc., rather than finding intrinsic and universal superiorities of one manufacturer's tubes over another's.
Chris
There is no doubt that the circuit effects the performance of any given tube. There is a right tube for every circuit, and every given listening preference. Agree that it is impossible to recommend "the best" tube of any type.
That said, the general sound of certain tubes of a given type seems to be common over a large variety of gear and well documented by a wide variety of listeners. Everyone (pretty much) describes the grey glass RCA VT-231 as rich sounding, or the Ken Rads as having great bass, or the Tung Sol roundplates and metal based Sylvania 6sn7Ws as being all around great sounding. These descriptions are made by many different listeners with many different types of gear.
Experimentation with different tubes in a given piece of equipment is the only way to determine what is best for you. But it is nice to have a place to start, and other's experiences can be helpful in that regard. Nice to have a stash of different types to play with. One of the joys of owning tube equipment for me.
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