Quote: I use green painters tape.  No residue.   The blue painters tape decreases soundstage.

Quote: Use a length painters tape folded in half.  Get purchase with the tape on both exposed sides of the tube.  Squeeze the tape gently against the tube with with your thumb and forefinger.  With your opposite hand, pull straight up on the length of folded in half tape that you have...

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Quote: I run BlueJeans everywhere I care and whatever I find in my epic-box-o-cables where I don't.   Lyrs ships with passable monoprice.    

Quote: I was one of the people that posted about problems with GL.  I ordered matched pairs and one of mine had a very, very obvious low level hiss.  Moderate volume music overtook it but it was definitely there during quieter passages.   Vendor shipped me a new one it arrived today...

Well I can't speak to my own experience as I've never ran the genalexes before but I've sure heard plenty of good things about them.   With my set, one was dead as a doornail quiet, and the other one had a very obvious and quite annoying hiss.  Maybe a bad batch came out or there are some QC...

Quote: Excellent, thank you.   FWIW I had ordered these from thetubestore.com, they've been fantastic in their working with me to get this issue sorted out.

Does anyone know which tube position corresponds to which channel?  I didn't want to pull a tube with the amp hot and I also didn't want to take the amp apart quite yet to find out   I just ordered a pair of matched genalaxes and one of them is really hissy .  I'd like to mark the offending...

Pre-order: 2/10 Email order recieved and paid: 3/21 Shipped: 3/23 Received: 3/25   Duration: 43 days

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  Quote: Maybe ignorance truly is bliss.

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  Quote:   Who gets to do the write up for "Synergy" ?     I'd offerer to do it myself, but I think too many cages would be rattled and I'd become an instant pariah.  

Quote: Use some blue painters tape to fashion something for you to pull on and gently rock.   Take your time and they come right out with no fuss.  

I'm glad 6moons was able to take away from valuable time spent demagnetizing CD's to tell us to turn an amp sideways.  When the amp is turned sidways, does it decrease or increase the soundstage?  What about transparency?  What interconnects have the best synergy with an amp turned on it's...