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In Reply to: RE: My Favorite 6SN7s. posted by Michael Samra on September 28, 2016 at 01:10:16
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All that follows is of course IMHO.
I really like the Sylvania Ws and the earliest GTs which look a lot like a W with its extensive gettering. Note also some of those Ws with the A designation on top of the dome . I had read that the A tubes were early.
I own a 4 pairs of TS round plates, 2 pairs sound great, but 2 don't, despite testing quite well. Granted I paid a lot for one NOS NIB pair, the rest more were bought more than a decade ago, at what are now very low prices.
Still I find the Ws possess a super, clean, top end and truly beautiful midrange, combining to result an overall imaging ability like no other. The areas where the TS are clearly superior are dynamics or slam, and bigger better bass.
I have so many nice 6SN7s, I am sorry my current headphone amp doesn't benefit as much from using them. Fortunately other pieces I own are exquisitely sensitive.
I have one TSRP that Jeffrey sold me some years ago. I use it as a driver sometimes in a preamp. But it's a cathode follower and the tubes don't really matter in the first position, or at least that's what I hear. Otherwise, where it does matter, I generally use for drivers in 2 other amps:
1. Raytheon 6SN7GT T Plate (or flat plate with brass support rods)
2. TS or NU 6F8G
3. Bad Boy
4. 7N7 (GT model)
5. 6SN7W
not in any particular order.
@ Frihed or M..,
Along the way I have acquired quite a few Raytheons but can't seem to find the "T" plate variety or Brass post. I have been looking at the GTs and 231s. When I did buy some, I thought the Ladder plate was preferred, but my memory is anything but lucid. Do you have a picture or reference to a picture? Thanks,
The two varieties of Raytheon VT-231.
Left T-plate copper post which I believe is the earlier. Right, ladder plate double support rods, labeled for Tung Sol.
I have not tried them in awhile, but I think I prefer the ladder plate tubes in my amp.
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