New Tubes- Need Burn-In?

The real term is aging, yes then the cathode emission becomes stable and the tube does not drift. The recommended time is circa 36 hours.Me, vacuum tube gear, late 1950's, Stategic Air Command. Delt with tubes. i'm thinking of doing a online consulting service, does this sound like a good idea, to all? won't be free, but i'll teach audio also to component level including transformers.

I am considering tube swapping on my Cayin as a necessity. For the last couple of days I have been hearing some loud pops in the right channel during the first ten minutes of warmup. After that the unit appears to be fine. I have never attempted biasing and tube swapping before but I am eager to learn. Dan thanks for e-mailing me the biasing info.

Change the small tubes from the right channel to the left channel and vis a versa. If the popping changes channels you've sourced your problem and potential solution. IME your complaint is typical of small tube deterioration. If that doesn't work change the power tubes in the same manner - if they were matched, biasing for this simple change may not be necessary. If you have to replace one or a pair you will then need to re-bias the new tube(s).

Merchans, I am using the Shuguang KT88's in my Cary SLI80 and they are as good as rumored. I got them from Penta Labs, which offers the "GEC clone" version of this tube. In my system this tube was better than either the EH or SED's. I didn't like the EH's at all, but thought the SED's were a good tube. There's a bunch of discussion about the Shuguang tube over at Audio Asylum.