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RE: Smeared?

If I were starting an amp from scratch, I might not opt for a paralleled driver. If I were modding an existing amp, I would look at how much effort is is to change the the driver to something completely different. Also, I have a lot of tubes sitting around here that need a home and that could influence the choice. Starting with a blank page, I am liking the 6EJ7 recently. Nice little pentode that sounds good run as is or triode connected.
In the case of the offending 300B amp mentioned in this thread, it started with a 6SJ7 driver, which sucked, so I tried a variety of other octal tubes so I could use the same size socket.
I will say this, a paralleled driver sounds better to me than a cascade whether DC or cap coupled. The extra stage takes more away than the paralleled version adds.

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