Are the Ken-Rads really worth the money? There was a pair of NOS 1940 Ken Rad 6SN7GT that was sold at around US $232.50 on ebay. Or is this one of the "it is only worth it if you got sensitive ears" kind of situation ( or because I don't own any one of them Ken-Rads so I am trying to convince...

Honestly, being pretty new to my Lyr, I am still trying to set a baseline with the the sylvania + find actual time to listen to it :L3000: So I am at the stage where there's too many tubes, too little time ( though it takes a faction of a second to click buy on a new tube ) but I am so looking...

OK, when the world runs out of old vacuum tubes, I know who to look for.

Just got these delivered today!

Do you guys stock up on your favourite tubes in anticipation that they might fail in the future or that NOS/used stock will eventually dry up?

I would like to thank the contributors to this thread for helping me developed an unhealthy obsession with finding tubes to roll on my new Schiit Lyr 3. I have so far been able to collect: 1. RCA NOS 1940s 2. Philco Sylvania 3. VT231 Sylvania NOS While it may not be 100% true, these tubes bring...