I had done just a little research on the Sophia Electric Blue glass,and they seemed to be highly regarded,however there were none to be found. I have no idea about the longevity of the Linlai’s. If I’m still around,I’ll report after 5-10K hours of use. LOL!
Linlai E 6sn7 tubes
I just placed an order for a pair of these for my Aric Audio Motherlode II. I’ve been chatting with a fellow that runs the E 6sn7 in his Don Sachs pre. He loves them, He says they make his NOS tubes sound thin and lifeless.
It will be a couple weeks until I receive them,and I was curious if anyone out in Agon land has tried these,and what are your impressions?
Thanks in advance,
Ray
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Take this with a grain of salt. Been told by another member I don’t know what I’m talking about. Okay. After the father of TJ Fullmusic passed, reportedly (unvalidated) his son decided to sell off some of the tooling for the smaller line of tubes to PSVANE including N7s. This has been debated on other forums too. Kept a few photos to watch it unfold studying who is making tubes for who and putting labels on for them in fancier gold label boxes. :) I plan to physically and sonically compare the new PSVANE CV181-TII tubes in a few weeks when they arrive. Look: Compare the (former) regular TJ Fullmusic 6SN7s to the regular Sophia Electric 6SN7s.
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I have the Shuguang Treasure 6SN7s on my Don Sachs preamp. Don says in his website that these simply walk away from the holy grail NOS tubes. That's quite a statement. Obviously this is not the case with all NOS tubes...as a lot of the culture that made these tubes is gone forever. My main issue is you can no longer get the Treasure variant of this tube from Shuguang (luckily I bought an extra set). You can no longer by the WE version anymore either. Psvane are hard to come by too. Now we have the Linlai. What is up with the availability of new production tubes from the east? Not a good sign. Make a good product and keep improving it and keep making it. |
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