Herbies tube dampers

@noromance  Nope. 👍😂

Let me start by saying I am a strong supporter of Herbie’s Audio Lab products. All that I have purchased deliver as promised and without insane pricing. And now, the one related exception. I have not had good success with their small signal tube dampers, having tried them on several occasions with ARC products. They DO seem to somewhat take the life/sparkle out of the tube in use. One hundred percent of the time it’s been back to the tube dampers supplied by ARC. I have not tried them on other preamplifier brands or on output tubes in any amplifier.

@tubegb wow. That’s unbelievable that u had bad experiences with the on the signal tubes of all Audio Research.  What were the ones u had success with ? 

@tattooedtrackman

After trying them several times they went into storage, where they still reside. As mentioned, no positive examples in this case to report. They're well made, etc. but are just not as effective versus the stock ARC dampers. Just one person's experience...

@tubegb   Thanks. My Herbies are coming today in the mail. I’ll have my review on them in this post in about a week or so.