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Tube change.

Hate to admit I’m at the point where I want to experiment a little but I also want to do my due diligence before making a purchase. I have tubed monoblocks each amp requires 8 kt-88 power tubes. I have read a few positive reviews regarding the Sophia electric kt-88 tubes. Does anyone with tube amplification that requires many power tubes and switched to SE have any helpful info for me?

sidog1460
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sidog1460 OP
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@axpert I have the Triangleart mono’s mentioned above.

Triangleart L-200Mk 2 preamp + Rhea power conditioner 

Emm labs transport and dac, Trenner&Friedl Isis speakers

medium_grade
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I've had a few Sophia Electric tubes myself and they generally sound excellent. Their Blue Glass 6SN7 might be my absolute favorite.

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curiousjim
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@sidog1460 

You don’t have your amps plugged into your Rhea PC, do you?

jbsqg
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Wow! What beautiful amplifiers! Sorry that I thought that they might be VTL's as your's seem to be in another league altogether, at least compared to lower-end VTL's. So all I can say is keep playing with input tubes. Apologies for rambling on about the wrong amps.

 

ghdprentice
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Agreed. Nice looking amps... that's a lot of tubes. 

I have used a number of different Sophia tubes and they have sounded superb, warm natural and detailed. While they are not Takatsuki... they are upper tier. 

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