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First of all...

Posted by Vinyl Valet (A) on June 29, 2015 at 14:40:14

In Reply to: RE: Good news (I hope)... posted by Jim McShane on June 29, 2015 at 13:40:07:

nowhere in any public forum have I mentioned where I purchased my bad eleven Gold Lion 6922s. Second of all, did I ever mention you by name as a vendor that does not agree with my assessment? No. When have I ever publicly or privately said that you are not speaking the truth? Never. Then why the attack? What have I done to you that would leave a "bad taste in my (your) mouth"? You publicly and kindly offered to look at my first six failures four months ago and I sent them to you. We had some pleasant personal correspondence at that time. That's it. Nothing has happened since.

Since my Gold Lions started going bad, I have seen elsewhere in other threads and reviews that other folks are experiencing the same kind of failures in roughly the same amount of time. Now today, I spoke with one of the larger tube vendors and he confirmed exactly what I'm talking about; about a six month life in most any application. He does sell these Gold Lions. Why would he make that up?

The majority of my Gold Lions have failed in my Herron VTSP-2A, running Ip at roughly 1mA; extremely easy on tubes. I've put 1000s of hours on Tungsram, Sovtek and EH 6922s with no fallout for noise. As far as the on/off transient theory goes, it does not apply to my Herron as I keep it on all the time except when I'm going to be out of town for more than a few days. Keith Herron has said that you can expect up to 10,000 hours of trouble free life from a good set of 6922s in his VTSP line stages.

Am I a little upset? Sure, I wasted good money on fairly expensive tubes that went very noisy rather quickly. Am I wrong to post my experience and what I've heard from other reliable sources in a public forum? I don't think so.

But apparently I have upset you. For that I'm sorry. It was not my intent.
Open up your mind, in pours the trash. - Meat Puppets, 1987

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