Buying Tubes Again; Maddening

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.

Rrog

"Sounds_real_audio, Can you please explain how a tube is properly respected by a designer?"

A well designed tube amp/preamp does not burn through tubes. Tubes really can and should last a long time.

Jim

selecting a tube is a nuisance, because there is no substitute for listening to the tube. all of the suggestions will not help until you hear the affect of the tube.

stanwal:

what ss amp are you using and why ?

did you select your amp because it's interaction with your speakers provided a sound which was close to the performance of some tube amp? or did the speaker perform very differently after you inserted the ss amp ?