Need thoughts on Canary & Cary

sounds like a plan. i'll be interested in hearing your thoughts on the vk-60. as far as retubing the VAC, i always liked the JJ 300b better than any other and you can get them for about $170 a pair from eurotubes.com.

Dennis

Whoa! My info on pricing 300b's is sure higher than that, like double.... or more. A lot more. I did do some research too with creditable tube vendors for a good while.

Those sound great huh? Lovely. the retubing price wasn't the only thing that made me move away from the VAC I was looking at... but it was significant among the reasons.

I will get back with my results.

Sure do thank you for the help.

yeh, if you buy the tubes thru vac, you'll pay a ton. check out the prices here, towards the bottom of the page:
http://eurotubes.com/euro-price.htm

yes, the vac sounds special. i always regretted selling mine, i will likely buy one again one day.

I used both Kevin, and Andy to price tubes with. Andy was less by a good margin. kevin said the 'now' tubes would not be the exact same as orig. he also said some sonic diffs were to be had as well... though nothing poor, just not at the same level as orig. Which then points me towards NOS... and still higher costs.

In all however, more than the costs for retubing were responsible for my change in paths... and it's not over till the fat lady sings, right? With me though, things tend to stick around more than six months. Another part of this departure might lead to another amp for bi amping. I have no idea.

I had every intent, and resources needed to get a VAC, and now this notion instead. things happen beyond my control which just either make more sense, or are less frustrating to do, as I trudge the path to a happier sonic destiny... or least ways, a different one.