Both can greatly affect your presentation, depending on how much cleaner or warmer the new tubes are, compared to the stock ones. Nice thing about your components is you can swap 12AU7s between them, to gauge the differences. The effects will be cumulative, as you change tubes along the signal path. Try a MATCHED pair of NOS Mullard(Blackburn) GZ34 rectifiers, for openers. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJ31Id3GTQ) These are also phenomenal tubes, for the power supply: (https://www.upscaleaudio.com/collections/vacuum-tubes/products/philips-5r4gys-made-in-holland)
Tube rolling preamp or power amp gain tubes, which ones (or both)?
I have a PrimaLuna DiaLogue HP power amp and its preamp mate the DiaLogue Premium. Both units came with six stock gain tubes each. Does anyone know if I would affect the resulting sound more by rolling out only the preamp gain tubes? Or is there more of an effect by rolling out only the power amp gain tubes? Are the "greatest" impacts produced by rolling out the gain tubes on both units?
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