Coincident Linestage vs CJ CT5 or Allnic L-3000

Th sonly time I have encountered any noise was with the CSLS partnered with Halcro power amps AND with the mute switch on. The owner of the Halcro contacted Israel who i understand was aware of this on happening on rare occasions and has made changes to newer models. It was no big deal for me because it was totally silent with the mute "off" mso it wouldn't be a problem using it.

Apart from the Soulutiion 710, have also hooked up the CSLS to a pair of Gryphon Colosseum monoblocks, Jungson JA-100's , Bakoon amps, Doge 9's, mingda and McCormack power amps and one or two others with absolute silence at all times and being fed by DAC's CD players and phono stages.

I think Brownsfan's advice is right on the money - its worth talking to Israel to help solve the problem although new owners shouldn't have this issue in future.

Jordan,

I am with you on the PSvane HIFI series. I think they lack a little bottom end and can sound a tad bright depending upon the rest of your system. Running them in a lot helps but they are not as good overall in my system as the Shuguangs IMO.

Pap,
It is really interesting how different systems yield different results with the same components. In my case as well as Brownsfan the Psvane Hifi 101D is without question better than the Shuguang tube yet you have the opposite impression. Just the way things are.
Charles,

Pap,
Your finding of absolute silence with the CSL mated to quite a variety of amplifiers is consistent with my home experience. This makes me believe that Jordan has a likely unusual electrical quirk in his system that's affecting the use two different active preamps. I hope Israel can help with this frustrating problem.
Charles,

Some update about Psvane WE101D replica tubes:

There are two versions of the Psvane WE101D replica tubes - one is called WE101D with shorter / thinner pins just like the original Western Electric 101D tubes do; the other is called WE101D-L (L stands for Long Pin), the pins are longer and 2 pins are thicker than the the other two. The Long pin is like pins for typical 300B tubes.

Most new production tube amps use 300B type of tube socket for 101D tubes, so before you order WE101D Replica tubes, you will need to check your amp socket or current 101D tube you are using for the pin type.

Psvane factory did a very small run WE101D for their annual audio show in Dec 2013. Some of those tubes were sold at Guangzhou audio show. There is no public sale of WE101D Replica tubes even in Chinese market yet. Real commercial production run of WE101D Replica will start this month and it will take at least one month to get the first commercial run of WE101D Replica tubes done, with any potential bugs ironed out. We expect new stock to be available at Grant Fidelity sometime in March 2014 in our Hong Kong warehouse. For those who know Grant Fidelity long enough, we never rush factory on any tube orders. You get what you pay for - this is very true with Chinese suppliers for all types of commodities. If you rush, factory will rush then quality will become questionable. Plus we always give factory a tighter quality criteria for our tube orders, so sometimes it has to take larger quantity of production to get enough tubes meet our requirement and meet our required quantity. That's why we do not have firm date of WE101D available, but hopefully within March 2014 for the best quality we can have.

We will list the WE101D replica on our website in a few days then interested buyers can place their pre-order or join with other forum member for a possible 20-pair group buy.

Rachel @ Grant Fidelity