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Posts: 1933
Location: Michigan
Joined: September 6, 2003
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Maybe I should point out......., " first and foremost, aren't all of our responses, based upon our opinions. ", and seeming that I began tube rolling back in 2003, and was more than willing to invest in at least 37 different brands at this particular period in life, it goes without saying I've heard just about every vintage of said Raytheon's ( the original ones made around 1952 with the orangish red text | logo - ones with red text | logo - the early to mid 60s versions with yellow text | logo......., hence Hitachi ", and never once questioned what I heard, and larger on preferred.
Yet aren't you the one asking how said latter version sounds?, I'd have to assume you haven't heard them?, why else would someone than be asking others " how they sound, or differ? ", or am I missing something?.
To my way of believing music should be rendered......., let's just say I much prefer of the American makes I've owned RCA | Sylvania | Hytron - CBS | even Westinghouse offered a better sense of Fidelity as well as balance, the key is understanding the strengths | weaknesses of each brand | then using each collectively to create a certain signature, if you were to read upon the creator of Shindo Labs tube gear, his name escapes me, but he spent his childhood studying said difference tonal | timbre wise if every tube brand | capacitor known to mankind, and to this very day to " my ears which is where it counts, for me! " a balance between olde world Classic tube sound, where it blends perfectly with modern tube gear which sounds more and more solid state with each passing decade since 1995.
Yet at the end of the day we much each ask ourselves........, have we only followed common rules?, as opposed to boarding our minds just enough to explore the possibilities of what could be, based upon cost?, or merely ones lack of knowledge of what's out there?.
Not I, I'd far rather know what I speak of, prior to even opening my moth, but as always that's how I roll......., truthfully that is.
I'd end this by saying " if you like them?, why waste time stock up ", hence one of the reasons I've owned 150 pairs of preamp tubes at one point or another in this life, I speak from knowing what's what, not because of what others have had to teach me.
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