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In Reply to: RE: Sylvania bad boy 6sn7 vs RCA posted by Mendel on February 19, 2016 at 06:59:47
Good write-up, Mendel. I did not mean to suggest the garden-variety Syls were somehow bad tubes. Quite the contrary, and your advice is very sound. Top getter GTA's are a danged good value for what they usually go for. I no longer have gear that uses 6SN7's and hadn't checked eBay (a.k.a. The Den of Thieves) for them in quite a long time. I was stunned when I did a drive-by over there this morning at how many sellers were calling virtually anything with the Syl name on it a Bad Boy.
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Hi all -- I appreciate your help here..... Thanks ... Tim.
Timm, as I recall that Cary uses one 6SN7 per channel for gain and one as a cathode follower. Rolling the gain tube will have much more pronounced effect than the CF tube. This is not to say that the CF has no effect on sound, just that it has less than the gain tube. I suspect you already know this, but just in case ...
Thanks Sondek. I was planning on two - exactly as you said. The followers... What if any difference is there by changing those out?
Tonality. In my experience they can have subtle influence on tone. Experiment with the gain tube first, then once you're really familiar with the sound of things, try rolling the CF.
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