If anyone is still looking for a SLP-98


I see that Cary Direct is selling a preowned unit for $2395.

immatthewj

Thanks for all.

Seems to me that Brent Jessee speaks well of the EH and JJ's but I may be mixing him up with another tube site that I go to. Most who sell something will have at least "something nice" to say. Hard to sell things if you say, "hey, these are crap but maybe you'll like them". :)

Seems to me that Brent Jessee speaks well of the EH and JJ's but I may be mixing him up with another tube site that I go to.

Hmmm . . . I think that you may be mixing him up with another site.

Tube depot maybe but I think Brent Jessee does sell some EH and JJ tubes. Any modern tubes I've ever had looked to be very poorly made. I haven't had a great deal of them but Mazda, some Chinese and Yugoslavian (EI?) tubes and none were what I'd call good. All that said, I have not had EH or JJ so I will be hearing them one of these days. Seems to me I read good things about Gold Lion and I think they are fairly new, or even still current, not sure.

So, having Hexfred rectifiers, does that make the SLP 98 a hybrid? 

So, having Hexfred rectifiers, does that make the SLP 98 a hybrid?

@billpete , I make no claims to be an electronics or tube guru, but I’d say that a piece of tube gear that  utilizes solid state rectification is NOT a hybrid. From what I have seen, there is an awful lot of tubed units using solid state rectification (perhaps the majority?) and I am just about sure that those are NOT considered hybrids. I had always thought of hybrids more in line with amps, and those were amps using input tubes but solid state output. But I may be mistaken--I often am.

A friend of mine sent me a Moscode preamp and it is called a hybrid. He sent it to me to see if it needed tubes as he has no way to test and it had stopped working for him. It had a bad mute switch that just needed cleaning. I was not overly impressed by it but I've heard worse. For whatever reason, it is called a hybrid preamp. Some people speak highly of them. Left me kinda "meh". 

Thanks for your explanation. You're well ahead of me on this stuff. I am an avid listener and I try when I can to understand some of the basics of electronics and that's about it. I have no intention of trying to build them. I may replace a part here and there but my skills in that area are very limited. When people start talking electronics to me, I feel like I'm back in kindergarten. I do pay attention though so don't give up on me. Thanks again,