Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody

Just for completeness, I'm running a Mullard GZ33 rectifier, and single triode 2C22 linestage tubes with the VA 350B. The VA took about 10 hours to mellow out - there was a little bit of brightness at first, but that smoothed out nicely.

Ait,Sounds good,I have a Mullard GZ-37 that works well in my stock Chardonnay,I tried the GZ-32,,and 33,but the 37 sounded better in my system,not by leaps and bounds ,,but noticeably better.I will try the VA 350Bs soon.And post my thoughts,thanks,Ray

Hey, can we dust off this old thread? I'm about a month into my ownership of a new Gen. 3 Cortese with LCR phono stage. I've read a lot on the Preamp Deal of the Century thread, plus this one, and tried to research the state of Supratek tube-rolling circa 2019. I have reached out to Mick and he's basically advised me to spend my money on more music, that tube rolling nowadays will produce "different" sound but not necessarily better sound. 

I've also read at least one post somewhere, in which a tube-rolling Supratek owner eventually came back around to preferring the stock tubes. Also, it should probably be noted that now, in 2019, there are fewer of the sought-after NOS tubes available, and they are much more expensive than they were 15 years ago, and there are multiple variants of new production 6SN7 tubes available, such as from Psvane, the Shuguang Black Treasure, the Northern Electrics, and so forth. I'll be purchasing a complete replacement set of "stock" tubes from Mick in the near future and that will help to set my mind at ease. But I can't help but be curious what the collective thinking is among the long-time Supratek owners who previously posted on this thread. Given the way things are in 2019, who is running what in their Supratek preamps?

It would seem that the Supratek owners have gone into hibernation. I previously owned the Syrah pre and loved it, especially the phono stage. I sold it when I had to downsize. Well I just placed a deposit on Micks Pinot stand alone phono stage and sold my Sutherland 20/20 phono stage. I am excited to get back to a Supratek tube phono stage. I am looking forward to tube rolling again, I only wish I hadn't sold off all of my W.E. 350B's. Those tubes are pure magic in my opinion in a Supratek, as well as the Tung-Sol 6SN7 GT. The Psvane, Shuguane, etc. are very good tubes but are not on par with the great NOS tubes. But there is absolutely no reason you cant be very happy with the stock tube set.

 any Supratek users out there feel like sharing their current tube compliment? I'm curious,  especially about comparing the new production tubes to NOS tubes that have been raved about for a long time.