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RE: Grant Fidelity 'top 10%' tubes worth the 25%+ premium?

Well, if their Chinese tubes are like Chinese COVID 19 tests, at least 30% are trash.

More seriously, what additional testing is done to cull out that 10%? The bump in price is probably mostly the additional labor/time involved in testing. Whether it's worth it or not is more subjective. I tend to spring for the good stuff for phono tubes, and after that I buy selected for low noise only. In my situation, I use mostly small signal tubes. Nobody offers tested/selected tubes for my servo-amps, so I have to test my own.


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  • RE: Grant Fidelity 'top 10%' tubes worth the 25%+ premium? - Sondek 07:19:35 04/11/20 (0)

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