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? |
@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, |
