Buying Tubes Again; Maddening

I've recently begun using some of the Psvane 12AX7s, which are about the same price as the Genalex 12ax7, despite the fact that their EL84 is twice the price of a Genalex EL84. Anyway, my initial impressions are quite positive indeed, although I'm still in the first 100 hours of burn-in. About to drop in a pair of Psvane 12AU7s...

I'm going to try some of Jim McShane's recommendations and also a set of the Psvane. Both are reasonably priced.

Sounds like an excellent plan - will be very curious to see how the Psvanes stack up again's Jim's recommendations.

Tubes without real names cant win and an true tubes addicted knows what I am talking about.

You can't go wrong with Jim McShane. BTW, in my CJ PV-15 pre-amp I'm using the Genalex 12 AX7's and 12AU7's, but Jim says I was lucky that they are running so quietly. He says he would not recommend the gold lions for pre-amp phono stages, but that if they sounded quiet then I should leave them in. They do. I did.

Jim sold me 2 quads of EH 6CA7's for my JWN tube amp. He says they are a close second to the gold Lion KT-77's. They sound quite good and I have had no problems with them. Of course, with Jim Nicholl's circuitry, the tubes in his amps generally last a long time anyway.