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RE: How reliable have your SET or SE tube amps been?

I have an ANK kit 1 300b set amp that I just built in November.

After about two hundred hours of use and incredible satisfaction, the rectifier tube started to spark upon start up.
Then it started blowing fuses. I was guided to try a replacment rectifier tube (5v3).
I bought a pair and each worked for a little while, but then they started to do the same thing.

Now I have been guided to try a 5u4g type rectifier tube.

I built this amp to go with a set of high sensitivity speakers I built for myself last summer.
It replaced a ss amp I used to use (audio upgrades modified- 1985 Adcom 555).

It's a bummer because I love this new SET amp so much.
It smokes my old Adcom, making it sound etched and grainy in comparison.

I have since switched back in my Adcom555, but it pales in comparison to the degree that I have prefered to not listen to music at all.

I will do anything I can to get this problem rectified (pun intended)!


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