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A simple tube hack

Tube dampers are a pain: on the one hand they tighten up the sound, on the other they take the life out of the music. By experimenting I found an interesting alternative for signal and rectifier tubes: Form a 1/2‘‘ ball of blue tack and place it on top of the tubes by gently pressing it down. I think you will be pleased with the result: gone are the false reverb sounds and clarity reigns supreme

antigrunge2
troidelover1499
253 posts
 

I had the same experience as stereo5 with melted rubber rings YUCK.

antigrunge2 OP
1,427 posts
 

Nope, blue tack doesn‘t melt at tube temperatures

tooblue
1,934 posts
 

Blue Tack is to an audiophile what duct tape is to a handyman. Enjoy the music

newbee
4,768 posts
 

I've been using tubes for many years. I used to use rubber tube rings on small tubes and metal fins on power tubes (which looked cool) but in the long run I found that the tubes I used did not really benefit the sound because they didn't need the damping (or cooling) effect afforded. i.e. I couldn't hear anything.

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