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In Reply to: RE: Tubes tested & burned in for 48 hours at audio research posted by jea48 on February 14, 2017 at 13:57:48:
Hi Jea,
ARC also said that their equipment sounds best when it reaches 600 hours. Ive not experience this breaking in period since I buy my ARC preowned. Thats why when I buy preowned late model ARC, it has a tube hour counter. They usually advise to replace the power tubes when they reach 2000 hrs while w/ small signal tubes at 4000 hrs. But I dont purchase tubes from them. I get them from one of our sponsors Jim McShane. Im from overseas ( the Philippines) and our small group have not had any catastrophic tube failures so far. I ordered tubes for my friend's REF 750 ( KT 150's ) , REF 250 ( KT 120's ) Classic 150 (KT88's) , VTL Siegfried ( 6550's & KT 88's ) , so far so good ! Is it as good sonically as the one from ARC , that I dont know .
Mondial
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