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Posted by drlowmu on July 10, 2012 at 04:41:32:
Andy,

You can not judge optimally what Finals sound best until you operate the tubes with a dissipation that is conservative, so the tubes do not sound stressed. You tell me privately you are at 14.575 Watts, way too high.

Its silly discussing the sounds of DHTs when they are all operated near maximum dissipation, and are sounding thermally stressed!! Relax the dissipation and relax the sound.

This applies not only to the Finals, (which you need to correct first), but to the tubes that precede it in the front end.

Reduce your finals to about 10.5 Watts dissipation as a start, and then try for Golden Ratio dissipations of your front end tubes. Set the front end dissipations by EAR until they each lock into a sonic sweet spot.

Then you are cooking with the design.

Easy does it, have fun. Report back to us all.

Jeff Medwin