I've been watching thread with interest. I wonder if those of you who've purchased these tubes can address a few questions.
As far as I can tell, only Grant Fidelity is selling tubes in two ranges - the "top 10% ultra low noise" and the "factory QC passed, driver quality". Has anyone compared these two ranges?
This raises the question what are people getting when they purchase from the other sellers mentioned on this thread? My sense is there's no free lunch and the lower price tubes that are being sold might be equivalent to the Grant Fidelity's "factory QC passed" tubes. It sounds like everybody who's buying these tubes is liking/loving them pretty well. Maybe the "top 10% ultra low noise" is not a requirement for these tubes to sound good. What do you think?
Also, has anyone who has purchased these tubes tested them and compared your results to those small sheets/reports you receive with the tubes? I'm sure the results won't be the same, but you might at least be able to see how closely the two sections match.
Another piece of information that would be helpful would be to hear what kind of circuit you're putting them in - are they going into a preamp, like a Supratek? Or are they going into a power amp, like in a driver position for a 300B tube? I'm using 6SN7s in both applications and would like to hear from all of you.
Best regards,
Markus no longer really the Naimnut...