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In Reply to: RE: Since ever 6SN7 was mentioned but my personal favorite are the 6SN7 TS Round Plates posted by Michael Samra on September 28, 2016 at 17:14:16
early 2000's, and though I had no gear that actually USED 6SN7's, I managed to find a half dozen or so NOS-NIB TungSol Black Glass Round Plate 6SN7's at a local Salt Lake City electronic supply house.For cheap ($5-10 each IIRC).
Now I have a tube line stage that uses one 6SN7 per channel so I am likely set for life (what's left of it).
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I've only heard the RP TS 6SN7 through one unit. A Moore designed Luminescence pre-amp. The unit sounded very good --- so hard to tell if the 6SN7 made much of a difference.
Steve
They make a difference.They undeniably make a difference.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
I can't think of a Tungsol or Raytheon tube that I've not liked. Only the ones that test poorly or are noisy.
For those that haven't seen one live:
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Why is it in this hobby that the parts that are hard to get/rarely seen/extremely expensive/few ever made/difficult to use nearly always sound best? Anyone ever notice this? It's almost never the parts that were made in huge quantities or are being reissued - even by highly competent and qualified manufacturers - that will get you to sonic nirvana. :)
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Buy Chinese. Bury freedom.
It's pure B.S. and often perpetrated by those with stock to sell. A lot of that went on here in the past.
~!
The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
Rare is often equated with good, but not necessarily in tubes.
My favoured Sylvania 6SN7Ws were made in vast quantities, for example, but are hoarded because they sound so good. Ditto for Mullard, Amperex and Telefunkin 12ax7s that were produced in mass quantities and are not rare even today, but command high prices due to their high quality. I have never delt with any tube reseller who did not have several of these tubes. and they were always at a premium to other (U.S. Made) 12ax7s.
A couple of the best 6SN7s not yet mentioned are the Russian hole plate 1578 IF you can get a quiet matched pair and that takes some some effort, and the Raytheon 6SN7WGT brown base which I prefer to either types of the earlier Raytheon VT-231.
Below the tubes mentioned so far in this thread, my favourites are the Tung Sol GTB tallboys, Sylvania bottom getter two hole plate GTs and early chrome top WGTs and GTAs, the early Hytron tall bottles and early GE GTAs. Good tubes and still available for similar money as reissues.
Enjoy the Roll!
I like these. They last forever, ever in harsh environments. Like inside Ampeg amps.I like the RCA red base 5692 for same reason.
8^)
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I think there is some magic in the round plate designs.Never had any 6SN7 round plates, but my SET amp uses 6J5 for front-end tubes, basically 1/2 of a 6SN7.
I've tried many types, and keep going back to the ST version (6J5G)with round plates.
Later 6J5GT had flat plates like some 6SN7's. They sound OK, too, but the round plates won the audition. Fortunately for me, they're not that rare.
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The more obscure, the higher the desire. Human nature.
I remember that fine blonde in HS... But, I digress.
8^)
nt
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