Thanks for the response, Paladin. No offense taken at all. It hadn’t really even occurred to me to try some basic electrical connection hygiene on the pins, which should’ve been the first order of business. If that fails, I’ll PM you. And I’ll go back and dig up the eBay history on them. I...

@Paladin79, I’ve got a pair of these Melz tubes that I acquired from eBay from a seller in Ukraine this summer after acquiring the Freya+ (and probably after some of your posts in this thread). What can I say? I went on a 6SN7 binge. Anyway, they look absolutely identical to the example on the...

New member, first post, but I’m that dude that just put a Freya+ into my system. Before I got the Freya I was running a Decware Zen Torii MK3 without a preamp into Zu Presence speakers. I was looking for more gain/weight/dynamics, plus the ability to add more sources than just phono and tuner...