Herbies tube dampers


Has anyone used Herbies tube dampers ? Can u share your experience with them. I want to change my 6 stock 6H30 dampers on my Audio Research Ref 6SE. I was also thinking of putting them on the power supply tubes 1) 6H30 and 1) 6550. Would this be a good idea ? 

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@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. 

Interesting, I have had Herbies tube dampers on my input tubes for years. But based on this thread, I just removed them, and I think, there is a little more sonic life in the music without them.

ozzy

@ozzy,

agreed. In my experience (I tried Duende Criatura, EAT and several others whose names I forgot) anything that touches the tube around its glass bottle ultimately dulls the sound. Two tweaks that seem to work: Mad Scientist Audio Tube Toppers and putting a 1/4in ball of Bluetack on the top of the tube. YMMV

antigrung2,

Looks like the Mad Scientist no longer provides that product.

So, are you saying that a ball of blue tack on the end of the input tube helps? Hard to believe...

ozzy