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Tha Freya with its stock tubes made a big improvement in my choral music, but it took expensive tubes to take it to an incredible level. Most importantly was using 6SN7GT - VT-231 JAN RCA, black plate gray glass tubes in the output stage. Here's what one reviewer had to say: "VT-231 RCA, black plates, rich harmonic structure, beautiful timbre and voicing, wide soundstage." A pair of these NOS tubes costs me $200.
Not as critical, but noticeable was in swapping out the stock tubes in the voltage stage with Sylvania 6SN7Ws. These tubes cast $250 for a NOS pair, but the cheaper Sylvania 6SN7GTA chrome top worked well too.
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Topic - Getting great vocals with the Shiit Freya - scruffy_ 13:41:52 02/20/17 (14)
- UPDATED POST - scruffy_ 17:32:46 03/08/17 (0)
- Addendum - Saga Tube Rolling - Greg Cz 06:11:30 02/26/17 (0)
- RE: Getting great vocals with the Shiit Freya - KanedaK 00:21:14 02/22/17 (0)
- RE: Getting great vocals with the Shiit Freya - airtime 15:30:09 02/21/17 (1)
- I tried to take some pictures but I do not know how to take the preamp apart! nt - scruffy_ 05:11:22 02/22/17 (0)
- Is that supposed to be like Freya Shiit and Your Ass Will Follow?... - musetap 19:29:09 02/20/17 (3)
- Id say - Awe-d-o-file 12:42:10 02/21/17 (0)
- RE: Is that supposed to be like Freya Shiit and Your Ass Will Follow?... - scruffy_ 04:36:35 02/21/17 (1)
- RE: Is that supposed to be like Freya Shiit and Your Ass Will Follow?... - Inmate51 13:41:50 02/21/17 (0)
- RE: Getting great vocals with the Shiit Freya - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 14:09:53 02/20/17 (4)
- Or - Awe-d-o-file 12:36:31 02/21/17 (1)
- I try not to be a fool! - scruffy_ 10:31:50 02/25/17 (0)
- "horrified at the extra expense" - Jim Hodgson 08:12:03 02/21/17 (1)
- The Sylvania Chrome Tops (6SN7GTA) are pretty cheap and do a good job - scruffy_ 05:07:57 02/22/17 (0)