Linlai E 6sn7 tubes

Members over at the head-fi org forum have been studying all the different variants of Shuguang and Psvane CV181 / 6SN7 tubes for years. Different shapes, different colors, clear, grey, blue, silver, and a variety of custom versions sold to different amp manufacturers who use them in their amps.   

Similar stories about how the son of TJ Fullmusic ended up selling off tooling for their smaller tubes to Psvane as well. Trying them seems to be the only way to know if they work well or not. 

Over there is where I read about "Funn Chen", in 2013 a Psvane employee and the stories about the engineers who split off from Shuguang and formed Psvane.  

Thanks for the great link @decooney. Much appreciated. Trying things out for oneself is really the only way to know what works for you. Gear,room,ears,tastes all play a very important part.  

Thanks decooney, lots of good info at Head-Fi.

I've had Funn Chen at Chinese restaurants. It's a tasty noodle dish.

The Head-Fi link is very informative. Chinese politics is very concerning as stated with the Psvane company. I wonder about the future of Linlai, President Xi Jinping does not want companies to be independent anymore. However, it might not affect a small business like Linlai.

If the resurrected WE Co could get serious and not overly greedy on price, make a bunch of different quality tubes, and then sell them to diehards like us.