Most Musical 6NS7 tube for a Preamp?

The best 6SN7s I have heard were the Tung Sol round plates. These were used as drivers in a slightly brighter sounding power amplifier. Perhaps one of the best buys are the Hitachi made, often rebranded, 6SN7GTB tubes. 

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The Shuguang Dawning Series WE6SN7 PLUS. Bought a pair on line from a Hong Kong dealer.

Can you share this dealer's link, contact information? Thanks

Hi tyray,

I bought them at China Hifi audio, but since then there has been a big shake up at Shuguang.....some sort of family split?  Not sure.  They no longer offer the Dawning Series WE6SN7 PLUS.  I have since moved to a Don Sachs II pre and although Don liked the Plus series in his pre, I did not.  They were ok but not great.  I have been back to running NOS.  Sylvania Bad Boys in the output stage and Marconi's in the buffer.  Don supplied Pasvane Globes and they are quite good.  

Have fun!

Wow! Thank you for your quick response! I almost pulled the trigger on the 'non  Dawning' Series WE6SN7 PLUS tubes on Amazon.

On the 6NS7 tubes, I bought the Don Sach’s Valhalla amp with upgraded Linlai 6NS7 tubes and they sound great. I was able to compare them to the "stock" tubes sent with that amp and they were much better, in my opinion. I haven’t tried the E series of those tubes but I will when these tubes no longer function. There is at least one thread on these tubes. They are larger tubes so you might have to use socket extender(s) to fit them in.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/linlai-e-6sn7-tubes