Linlai E 6sn7 tubes

@decooney, thank you so much for bringing up that issue with your signal tubes. After reading your post,I remember that I read about that phenomenon some time ago. I am going to give that a try.

I had an issue today that my power supply tubes were not firing up. I contacted Aric. Buy the way, what absolutely wonderful customer service!! He responded within 20 minutes,on a Saturday,on a holiday weekend, on a product I bought used.
He had  me replace the fuse, and the rectifier tube. The Motherlode II is now up and running. I put the Linlai’s back in,and got that distortion”grunge “ that @decooney mentioned. Now to try to tap that grunge away.

Received my Grant Fidelity Linlai Globes today. Superb tubes.

They are extremely quiet, more quiet than the best Linlai I have had so far and as quiet as the CV181’s I have in the hiss/tube rush category.

I did have to use an extender on one to keep them from touching front to back on my preamp.

One whole hour so far. Very happy with the purchase.

@bugredmachine  Good for you! Tell me; do they have the same sound signature as the ones you sent me?

Yes. You should have kept those.

I didn’t think that was an option.

I ordered a set of 4 from Linlai of China, & they told me they’re on lock down. They sent me an email yesterday stating that they would be coming from G/F. When I went to their web site (G/F) they stated they were out of stock, so that's why I ordered from Linlai themselves. I'm assuming they shipped to Canada before the lock down. your guess is as good as mine....