Pope Holland Tubes for Cary SLP98P

Some excellent notes of the 6SN7 family of tubes(and their presentations), most of which I can verify from personal experience, having tried all the top contenders: (http://home.att.net/~chimeraone/6sn7sound.html) Contact Kevin at Upscale regarding the Popes. (http://www.upscaleaudio.com/Pope-6SN7GT_p_105.html) He'll never steer you wrong, and his quality control/testing/matching is exemplary. BTW- The 6SN7s in your Cary are used as buffers, and a quad of bottom gettered Sylvania 6SN7GT/VT-231s, from the 50's (ie: http://cgi.ebay.com/Sylvania-6SN7GT-Bad-Boy-Tubes-Matched-Pair_W0QQitemZ260453877957QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVintage_Electronics_R2?hash=item3ca442c8c5&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14) would serve you well, at somewhat less of a price. I'm not vouching for that seller, as I've never purchased from him.

Rodman99999,

thanks for the suggestions, much appreciated.

Mechans,

I had never heard of Pope tubes prior to about a week ago when I searched tube rolling on the Cary SLP98 so you must be thinking of someone else. I like my preamp a lot, I am just wondering if it's worth $600 or should I move up to the SLP 05 and get a seperate phono stage?

I may try rolling the tubes first.

I have an SLP-05 and the Popes were the best for ME out of the 10 different tubes that I tried. I have the set that's in the pre and some spares...

I have the Pope 6SN7'S in my My Cary SLi80 and they are best I ever heard and I have tried about all them.

I have fully upgraded 98P Popes are my favorite, i brought a quad from Upscale in 2016. I think Sylvania a very close 2nd.