it seems while I was away people have been getting very creative with rolling. Need to get few that people have been using to how they are.   If someone likes to roll more "normal tubes" there's few good 5654/6ak5 on the bay   5 raytheons...

majority of my tube collection for MK II   2 of my favourites are GE 6564 and Sylvania.   enough for me and my brother for our life and slowly selling off more valuable ones.

just got my kit from glass jar audio w/o panels since i will probably upgrade to gamma 2 after a while. I used to solder and do a lot of DYI things in elementary and high school and haven't done anything in over four years and thought this kit would be fun kit to get back into it. My first...

Quote:     i don't know about canada but in US, 2 yrs ago they offered 650 and last yr 600. believe they were for 350 and 300, but sold out in seconds from amazon. again, no idea about canada

I have MKII. I haven't used it in 3 months because I've been far too busy with work and school. For the price it's very nice but compared to MKI i cannot compare because i don't have one. Compared to Fiio E11 much better but it's not fair since one's desk and fiio is portable. If you'll be...

thanks for the update. Looking forward to the rest of the tube comparison.

though i have a tube tester i generally purchase tubes matched and just check for DOA. It is true that within the same batch it should be relatively similar though there are small tolerances. problem is people just selling same date codes and selling them as matched. and with most tubes...

very happy with JAN GE 5654s. not much burn in and still far superior compared to stock tubes on MKII. Getting rid of all the other tubes except sylvannia and stocking up on GEs. Cheap tubes that I do like. Though it is tempting to try all the nice tubes that everyone has it'll cost too much...

though i was waiting for infinity's review of GE and Raytheon JAN 5654my stock tubes on MK IIstarted to buzz on my right ear so decided to put in the GE tubes. burning in at the moment so i hope it's pretty nice. Oh and GE tubes are so much cheaper than Rayheon at half the price.

thanks infinity. i really do appreciate it. Just trying to figure out if i want to use between GE, Raytheon and sylvania GB and sell of whatever I won't be using for money and to save space. But I figure that two pairs of sylvania are probably going unless they're significantly better.  ...

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just purchased some nice 5654s for very good price. not completely sure what's included but from picture it seems like 10 GE JAN 5654 couple rca, sylvania golds and several others. looking forward to tube rolling. Also is it really important for the tubes to be matched? some people don't...

male 22 17.4 on the mosquito site using brainwivz B2 at normal hearing volume. Yea earbud and home with fridge and 2 computers going. Blaming on playing flute for a decade

I have LD MKII coming in soon and probably will be rolling tubes meaning there will be tubes that I will not end up not using. But I'm curious because low level entry tube amps often do not share tube types such as EF95, and 92. So for those who have moved onto higher end tube amps, do you...

last year newegg and amazon had hd650 for 300 each.