Thanks guys....
Let me start off by saying I have had tremendous trouble with Tubes this past year and I'm sure I vented about it all here on the Gon.
As for the specific Block we are talking about today, it has blown two tubes and red-plated two tubes during this time in addition to all the other problems I had. Same Block, two different sockets.
This morning I fired everything up and as soon as the pre finished its wakeup a virtually new tube had a spectacular blue firework show with noise to match....only one tube. I shut everything down and installed new tubes.....dead.
I have not opened the amp....yet.
With all the trouble Ive had, part of me wants to leave tubes to the younger crowd. Now granted, these mono-blocks are quite old and I should expect them to have to be rebuilt at some point and it would be stupid to just quit on them, but Dang! As you know, the worst part about tube failure is not the failure itself but the waiting for it to happen again.
I suppose, considering First Watt, what some people think sounds like tubes may not be what I think sounds like tubes.
My first thought was, great, now I have an excuse to get some QS horn-blocks, but I looked today and they are no longer being offered. That's when I thought , "thats it, time to move on."
I obviously should have them looked at, anyone have a recommendation for repair guy in MLPS?
Any other thoughts.
Thanks again,
TD
