As long as the tubes, are electrically identical,(same family) there is no reason, that mixing, would not work. The circuit only sees, the electrical charateristics, of the tubes, not who's name, is printed on them.
Mixing new and NOS tubes OK?
I am about to retube my BAT VKP5 phono pre and was wondering if mixing NOS and New tubes is OK. It has (8) 6922 type tubes. If money and availability were no object, I'd probably use all NOS tubes. However, most of the sonic qualities comes from the first stage so I'm considering using some premium NOS Amperex 7308s for the first stage and Sovtek 6922s for the rest.
Is there any reason not to do this?
Is there any reason not to do this?
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