Herbies tube dampers

@tubegb wow. That’s unbelievable that u had bad experiences with the on the signal tubes of all Audio Research.  What were the ones u had success with ? 

@tattooedtrackman

After trying them several times they went into storage, where they still reside. As mentioned, no positive examples in this case to report. They're well made, etc. but are just not as effective versus the stock ARC dampers. Just one person's experience...

@tubegb   Thanks. My Herbies are coming today in the mail. I’ll have my review on them in this post in about a week or so. 

Interesting, I have had Herbies tube dampers on my input tubes for years. But based on this thread, I just removed them, and I think, there is a little more sonic life in the music without them.

ozzy

@ozzy,

agreed. In my experience (I tried Duende Criatura, EAT and several others whose names I forgot) anything that touches the tube around its glass bottle ultimately dulls the sound. Two tweaks that seem to work: Mad Scientist Audio Tube Toppers and putting a 1/4in ball of Bluetack on the top of the tube. YMMV