What is your favorite tube type?


With so many tubes that do different things and have different sound profiles, what is your favorite? EL34s wonderful PRaT, KT88/6550s smooth and dimensional sound, lush mids of a 300B, detail of a 2A3 or the huge soundstage of an 845? I am curious which is your favorite. What do you like about it?
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However, a well designed 300B should sound different than a well designed KT88.  
Well, triodes do sound better than pentodes, plain and simple- at the same power levels. KT88s are capable of a bit more power than 300bs. Most people run 300bs single-ended while most KT88s are run push-pull. There is a noticeable difference on that account alone.

My preference for power tubes is also the 6AS7G; it allows me to make a triode power amp of high power and low enough output impedance that I don't need an output transformer- making the amp more transparent and wider bandwidth on that account. Due to the fact the amps don't use a transformer, they are more detailed and transparent than SETs (price no object) and I can build them at lower power levels where they work just fine with horns. But the biggest amp I've made makes over 500 watts. Cake and eat it too sort of thing.
My recent faves after trying various types have been the new Tung Sol 7581a, but I recently bought a Dennis Had "hot rod" SEP "high output" (12wpc or something depending on tubes) that's around 6 months newer than my current Had "fire bottle," and it seems to sound best with new Gold Lion KT77s. The "hot rod" has more voltage according to Had, and the internals are nearly identical to the "fire bottle" except for an extra Jensen cap or two...the two amps are VERY similar sounding and I'm not sure yet which one sounds better, and I'm having trouble locating any info on what, exactly, is the technical difference between these two amps...anybody know the answer? 
@ebm  I just picked up a pair of Mazda 1960's vintage halo gutter 7308s.  These things are the bomb!  Just glorious sounding tubes.  Much better than my previous Telefunken E88CCs.  I haven't tried the Amperex 6922s yet.  Generally, I have not been a lover of 6922s, much preferring 6SN7 based designs.  But these Mazdas are something special.