I purchased my BAT VK-D5 in the early Nineties. It takes six 6922 family tubes. Tried a wide variety of the best I could find (Amperex, Teles, etc) and could even tell the differences between the earlier years of the Siemens CCa. Especially between the silver shield/internal date code and grey shield/external dates. Six of those grey shields to install and another sextet for backup, cost half as much as the CDP itself. I almost wish I couldn’t hear the differences, so..........NAH (not a chance)!
6922 tube
I have a Cayin CD17 Mark1, takes 2 6922 unbalanced (which i run in) and 2 balanced(which i never will use), So I hada tube flipping business that went sour = lost $$$$,,anyway,, started buying all sorts, A-Z 6922/6dj8,7dg8, ecc88, cc88, etc etc, 188's, 288's, etc etc, I;'ve heard nearly every variety/lab of this variant.
= all sounded nearly identical..
Now maby in your Acoustic reserach a 6922 can be diciphered from others,,but in my cayin CD17, all sound nearly identical.
So I figured, <<must be the circuitry = not so sensitive as per tube typology>> , long story short,, one of the 288's, were bad, amperex, like $125 each,,so a friend lent me a pair of russian military Gold Aero,,,pulg them in,,, wow, my system went sour., after all my countless mods, with super high tech parts, were made ~~null and VOID~~~,,all over a pair of 6922 russian Gold Aero military tubes,, He says they are actually not 6922;'s, but,, can't recall the specific name of this tube.
But its far and away from a true musical 6922.
While every other Tele, Siemens, vavlo (both Red print and White) Philips RCA , GE etc etc ETCCCCC,,all sound nearly exact..
~~~~~Bottom line~~~ Do not waste your money buying the Tele 6922 pair froma german seller for $1500, nor others selling any /all variety of 6922 for over say,,,$20 each,m, Yep you heard me right,, You should never ever pay more than $20 for any 6922 type tube.
All those countless $50-$1500 and maybe even $2500 fora pair of NOS 6922 is pure 100$ snakeoil.
Now a AX and a AU, now here we do indeed hear minisclue differences, which make me a fan of Tele and only the Tele. a Tele offers in my system superior resolution.. Not by much,, but as i've said countless times in all my threads,, a nunace here, a miniscule there, a tweak here, a upgrade there = all adds up to a superior sound.
a 6922= 6dj8 = 7dj8, ecc88, =cc88 = 188 =288,,However my tech guy who lent me the russian non muiscal 6922, said this player is best using any 6922, except the 288... has a dif heater value.
So do not waste your money thinking a over $50 pair of 6922's will improve your sound.
A Tele 6922 is not superior to any 6922(preferable USA/EU) ever made.(just make sure its not chinese= I do not like chinese pretubes>>> nor russian military),,I have a quad of EH's comming in 1 week,, that is one 6922 I've not heard,,will report ASAP.
rant over.
Snakeoil buster here,
,strikes again..
Toucheeee
= all sounded nearly identical..
Now maby in your Acoustic reserach a 6922 can be diciphered from others,,but in my cayin CD17, all sound nearly identical.
So I figured, <<must be the circuitry = not so sensitive as per tube typology>> , long story short,, one of the 288's, were bad, amperex, like $125 each,,so a friend lent me a pair of russian military Gold Aero,,,pulg them in,,, wow, my system went sour., after all my countless mods, with super high tech parts, were made ~~null and VOID~~~,,all over a pair of 6922 russian Gold Aero military tubes,, He says they are actually not 6922;'s, but,, can't recall the specific name of this tube.
But its far and away from a true musical 6922.
While every other Tele, Siemens, vavlo (both Red print and White) Philips RCA , GE etc etc ETCCCCC,,all sound nearly exact..
~~~~~Bottom line~~~ Do not waste your money buying the Tele 6922 pair froma german seller for $1500, nor others selling any /all variety of 6922 for over say,,,$20 each,m, Yep you heard me right,, You should never ever pay more than $20 for any 6922 type tube.
All those countless $50-$1500 and maybe even $2500 fora pair of NOS 6922 is pure 100$ snakeoil.
Now a AX and a AU, now here we do indeed hear minisclue differences, which make me a fan of Tele and only the Tele. a Tele offers in my system superior resolution.. Not by much,, but as i've said countless times in all my threads,, a nunace here, a miniscule there, a tweak here, a upgrade there = all adds up to a superior sound.
a 6922= 6dj8 = 7dj8, ecc88, =cc88 = 188 =288,,However my tech guy who lent me the russian non muiscal 6922, said this player is best using any 6922, except the 288... has a dif heater value.
So do not waste your money thinking a over $50 pair of 6922's will improve your sound.
A Tele 6922 is not superior to any 6922(preferable USA/EU) ever made.(just make sure its not chinese= I do not like chinese pretubes>>> nor russian military),,I have a quad of EH's comming in 1 week,, that is one 6922 I've not heard,,will report ASAP.
rant over.
Snakeoil buster here,
,strikes again..
Toucheeee
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