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jeffreybehr

In Reply to: RE: Since ever 6SN7 was mentioned but my personal favorite are the 6SN7 TS Round Plates posted by Michael Samra on September 28, 2016 at 17:14:16

Ever since I started searching for the best-sounding 6SN7GTs, when I owned Antique Sound Lab Hurricanes, I quit looking when I found the TSRPs*. Indeed some are highly microfonic, but enough that I've bought are not, and I've kept most of them.

I currently use six in my Atma-Sphere M60 Mk.3.3s...

(but I now use a A-S plug and not a tube in the center-rear socket)
...and, lucky me, I have an even dozen in reserve.

Actually, I'm not lucky, I'm simply willing to pay the c. $100-each prices on eBay to get the good ones. Here's the most-recent quad I bought...

They didn't look nearly this good when they arrived, and they averaged about $70 each IIRC.

* FWIW, my 2nd-favorite 'N7 is the Ken-Rad VT-231.
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Tin-eared audiofool, large-scale-Classical music lover, and damned-amateur fotografer.
William Bruce Cameron: "...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

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There are indeed microphonic ones but the nice thing about that is - Michael Samra 13:49:04 10/02/16 (1)
you don't really notice it so much in an amp as you would a preamp with the higher amplification factor.

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
- Yes indeed, and especially if they're serving as cathode followers. (NT) - jeffreybehr 14:06:48 10/02/16 (0)
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  Tin-eared audiofool, large-scale-Classical music lover, and damned-amateur fotografer.
  William Bruce Cameron: "...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
RE: I KNEW there was something about you I lked, and I don't even know you. :-) - Michael Samra 16:20:51 10/01/16 (0)
Jeff
The Atmasphere amps are really a testament to how superb the tubes are because those amps are extremely revealing.

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
RE: I KNEW there was something about you I lked, and I don't even know you. :-) - wiggy924 20:35:19 09/30/16 (1)
Guys,
How would you rank these tubes:?
Sylvania 6SN7W
Sylvania VT 231
Sylvania WGTA
Sylvania GTB
Ked Rad
RCA 5692
Thanks,
Wig

Edits: 09/30/16
- Understand that my comparisons were made maybe 15 years ago... - jeffreybehr 00:25:12 10/01/16 (0)
  ...and my memory isn't very long, but:
  1. I never found any of the about-million variations of the Sylvanias to sound particular good to me, but maybe I just never had any of the really good ones; same goes for the few Raytheons and RCAs I heard;
  2. Didn't try any 5692s; and
  3. The Ken-Rad VT-231 was my 2nd-favorite of any. It's close to the TSRP, overall, but lacked a touch of the richness of the TSRP that I think helps make them sound more like music than other tubes do.
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  Tin-eared audiofool, large-scale-Classical music lover, and damned-amateur fotografer.
  William Bruce Cameron: "...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

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