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Jim inspires confidence

Posted by 1973shovel on October 26, 2020 at 09:05:32:
...in his tube matching as well as his noise testing. I wanted a back-up matched quad of Gold Lion EL-84 (a great tube, by the way) and would never trust the "factory matching" some vendors offer.

Some forget (or simply don't know) that Jim also sells parts, ones which he can personally recommend through experience. While placing my last tube order, I asked Jim if he had any 0.47 uF Russian K40-9-Y PIO caps in stock. He didn't, but he did have one remaining pair of NOS Pyramid PIO caps in the value I needed for my 12AX7 based phono.

An Asylum search revealed a few posts by Mike Samra, stating that the Pyramids were even better than than the K40s, and Mike was the K40s biggest cheerleader. I asked Jim to include them with my tube order.

Without trying to be too melodramatic, these caps took a bland phono stage I rarely used, to a musical, pleasurable circuit I now spend many hours listening to. To say I'm pleased is an understatement. The only drawback is now I'm frequently thinking about what else I can do to further improve it. RIAA caps and resistors are next on my list.