Thank you, Bill. All well personally, just busy at work. All that crap with war in Europe is depressing. I enjoy the tubes I have so my interest in exploring further has been reduced somewhat. Hope you are well, too?

just be careful if you drop in on the floor when rolling with decent sized tubes: it might fall in between the boards and you will never retrieve it

never seen any reason to change it since I paired it with aune DAC and got all the tubes an cans I wanted

that's 7A4s in Vali 2, but same setup with different adapter of the same kind for 6J5

sure it can - with a right splitter adapter. it is not just the looks: the space of the soundstage!

see my path of rolling tubes in my signature. I hope it can inspire you

A LED lightbulb? There must be adapters...

UK is not Europe. That's some funny islands neither here nor there. That is why the shipping times to the US are shorter - they are halfway already

I found my nirvana in a setup that includes K702. Never bother to look for anything else but rolling the tubes that I already own from time to time.

Not just for Telefunken, also for Siemens and other brands. Rundfunk- und Fernmelde-Technik (RFT) was a large East German state-owned conglomerate which had many factories, some of them were built by Telefunken before the war (e.g. "Anna Seghers" in Neuhaus). When the production of tubes in...

Yeah. I took it from a wrong angle, perhaps. I wish you enjoy the tubes. I was looking at some C68G and some and C6F8 and 7193 and suddenly realized that I HAVE MORE BLOODY TUBES THAT I CAN EVER LISTEN TO! That's why I do not need more, not because they are more expensive than they used to be...

Value is. Authenticity is not. :robot:

I am not questioning your decision. It is your money and you spend it as you wish, of course. I just wonder about the seller and authenticity of his stock

You consider $60 per 6C8G "not much"? That is what they charge on eBay...

These look like sold in India. Are they genuine? The source seems to have unlimited supply of all good tube types, which is somewhat odd, is it not?

6000 tubes would give you some glow :)

OK, re-checked the record. The Russians say the best sounding Moscow-made 6H8C are with shiny perforated anodes, made from carbonised nickel: Moscow factory (МЭЛЗ), metal base, late Fifties. 1578 is an after-manufacturing testing quality assurance stamp, to certify less than 1% difference of...

They look OK, if not that ugly ink stamp. These seem to be with the black plates, not grey ones. I do not remember which ones are older or sound better (I do not want to discuss their sonic character as that annoys some of us). Any way, hereby these different types; shiny [grey] on the left...

Seriously, I'd vote for keeping the name of that amp. Cowen sounds noble!

I thought Google was Alphabet?

and the price to go with it https://www.ebay.com/itm/cv181-tube-mullard-preamp-tubes-ecc32-brown-base-6sn7-b65-cv1988-amplifier-black/254809605545?hash=item3b53d605a9:g:BDoAAOSw~Jhf2ct7

Two 6J5 or two 7A4 in respective adapters to 6922 also work extremely well in Vali 2, as you hinted

I thought it was about the bear? :guardsman:

No. Bangy Bangs you