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If you own true ribbon Maggies and you use tube amps, this information might be helpful:
I just discovered what tubes that need to be replaced sound like! For a while, I was pretty unhappy with my stereo, especially the treble. The ribbon was sounding flat (no soundstage depth), veiled (no detail), with reduced top-end extension. I then looked through my old emails and realized that I'd been somewhat heavily using my current output tubes for nearly two years to drive quite a difficult load!
I swapped the old Gold Lion re-issues out for a set of Valve Art 6550s (a good reliable tube but not the caliber of the GL reisssues), powered up the amps, adjusted the bias, and put on one of my favorite SACDS: Aimee Mann's "Lost in Space" MoFi remaster. Boy oh boy did it sound the way I remembered my stereo sounding. Everything just "relaxed" yet with increased detail and extension. Go figure.
Just a heads up... make sure you know when to replace tubes! I'm pretty new to tube gear, so I didn't know any better.
-- Nils
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