my pleasure, UT ... glad it's found a happy home. now ... why is the gec taking so long to get to LR?   his shipment to me just arrived about an hr ago.   the prices on premium tubes have been crazy for a long while --- now it seems to have reached hysterical proportions -- that's why i'm...

i agree -- & i was fortunate enough to catch him in action with jacqui mcshee ... maybe 8yr ago ... but my recollection is that he did not seem to be in the best of health then and the sets were rather on the 'slow' side.

haha ... excellent.  now you can start hunting for an original arnold: english, scottish, cornish dances on lyrita label.  <edit> how many $$$$ ??   another vinyl treasure is john renbourn's Sir John A Lot (Of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte) ... i bought the windham hill...

must be a heavy bird ... having a hard time getting off the runway.   i wonder how UT is faring with the slotted bendix?  that was some fast delivery. i sent yours only 1 day later, but the posties decided to take a 3-day weekend.

@DecentLevi  ... where are my manners?  ... thank you for the kind words.

  i thought about the oled ... but $7k cdn for the 65" e6 ... that was way too much shuck to swallow.  so i'm very happy with the 8500 ... blacks are very black, way super contrast, literally no light bleed at the edges and only minimal bloom with white text on black background.  a momentary &...

damn hard to find good prices on these tubes today (at least from reliable sellers) --- i got mine 3 - 5 yr ago.  i liked telefunken, siemens, amperex in my setup.  also valvo. i used them in a hybrid amp with ss output devices so i don't know whether or not this would be indicative of...

for me, monk needs burn in.  i didn't like the sound at all during the first day ... stopped listening after the 1st hr & just let it play from my laptop.  after a few more hrs next day, i began to understand why it has attracted so much attention.  but there's not much slam in the lower...

@UntilThen   ...  looks like your tube has landed ... now, depends upon efficiency of your customs & ozpost.

thankfully, i'm not buying any more tubes (famous last words ... repeated often enough ... are ignored).   but ut has posted an image which is reminding me to ... dig out those other 4 el3ns.

caveat emptor, indeed.   he also has this listing, which also causes the neck hairs to bristle:   http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4x-Philips-ECC82-12AU7-NOS-NIB-Disc-Getter-/391582847647?hash=item5b2c28129f:g:nC4AAOSwzaJX82hp   (any time i see or read disc getters, my initial thoughts are russky...

      is it real or is it memorex ---- is it real or is it g.e.c.?   if it's fake, then it is bloody good job.  but there is something about the printing on the box end flaps ... need to check with a known, real box.

good question ... i could have sworn this is what i remember from my readings of tube history ... oh well, as roseanne roseannadanna used to say ... nevermind ...   but i do like my raytheon 5751 ... a lot.

@DecentLevi   .... have a gander at this summary:   https://www.tubeworld.com/7308.htm   if you can find a nos pr of these for a decent price, 10,000 hr life may make it worthwhile.

  keep in mind, it is an earbud & despite some overwhelming praise in some quarters, it is no hd800, t1 or even hd600. i do not know how these over-the-top accolades come to fruition.   when one's hunger can be abated by a bowl of 'jook' then a monk will also suffice. <edit>  i've had some...

no adapter req'd --- pin for pin compatible <edit>(i mean it is pin for pin compatible with 6dj8 - not directly useable in elise w/o adapter).    i forget which one i have --- siemens, valvo, amperex?  right now, it's lost amongst the tubes in the chest of drawers & i'm just too lazy to dig...

  might i proffer pcc88 (if you can find at a reasonable price).  7v tube but it works fine in 6v applications.

      these are monk plus.  i hated them when i first put them on --- thought they sounded awful --- but then next day, the monk appeared.

there are so many good ones it's hard to go wrong ... absolutely lovely and natural sounding.  when i started buying these i often didn't have a clue as to what the music was ... didn't matter ... every single one i purchased was good.   i don't know what i'd choose for my numero uno classical...

we have no bullet trains here.  our trains (lrt for light rail transit) can take you from pt a to pt b in 10 min.  pt a = south side of street; pt b = north side of same street.   we also have bridges that are 2+ yr behind schedule. the city engineering dept has suggested that these projects...

there are 100s of academy recordings with sir neville marriner --- all of them sound very good, some of them are astounding ..  on the argo label.

& LR, he's gettin' this baby; also on the fast train, but different platform ...  

yep, this one's on the fast train comin' at ya ...  hope it plays nice.  

& as previously mentioned, 10A = elise is smokin'  (& not good smoke either).   fyi:   we421a:  long discourse, read it all ---  http://www.head-fi.org/t/506133/visual-evidence-tung-sol-5998-western-electric-421   <edit>  oops, UT beat me to it ... again.

  let's take this to pm so as not to sully this wonderful thread with our sleazy   deals ...  heheheh.