The best place to buy the ken rads is vintage tube service, but you might have to wait a while to get them as he is backed up right now.
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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@ram18 - Brent Jessee mentions having 40’s, VT-231 Ken-Rads in stock. I loaned a pair of black glass, to a fellow ’goner, some months ago, "just to try." Haven’t heard from them since. Guess they liked ’em! The bottom-gettered Sylvanias, listed just below the Ken-Rads, are what I’m presently using. I prefer them to the Ken-Rads, but: still have a couple pair of the VT-231 Rads, for back-up. Brent Jessee’s website, 6SN7 page: |
After pulling the E-6SN7 Linlai from my system, I'm back to my typical setup. Amp; K-R black glass VT-231 in gain stage, Sylvania VT-231 as follower, and Sylvania 6SN7GT 1952 bottom-getter as driver/phase inverter. Preamp has Tung-Sol VT-231 round plates.
I stocked up on Sylvania GT bottom-getter 2 and 3 hole plates (Bad Boys) as prices started to rise. Also have a couple pair of WWII VT-231. |
I don’t even remember buying my pair of two hole, t-plate, bottom-gettered, VT-231 Sylvanias, or: ever having listened to them. Must have been when I was going through that 6SN7 comparison from Chimera Labs, and trying everything on it (+), decades back. BUT: when I bought Brent Jessee’s last matched pair of round plate Tung-Sols (my fourth pair), a couple years ago and found the Sylvanias hidden in my stash, I tried them in concert in my Cary monoblocks. Nothing I’d tried before had given me the organics and sound stage depth of that combo. They’re still in there!
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