Nice endeavors as usual around here, especially the Crazy Box (tm) with an extra tube stage, which the manufacturing of is way above my league lol -and to think people used to think I was doing some crazy stuff... The times, they change...
Anyway, meanwhile in calmer waters, I found a single - I was looking for a pair but pairs were way out of my budget- Amperex USN-CEP 6922 tube for 40 some UK pounds shipped, which isn't so bad if you look on the bright side.
What's interesting is that it has the exact - and I mean exact - same factory codes and date codes as gibosi's Beckman 6922 tubes. These have been getting very good (as in top tier) reviews on the Lyr thread and elsewhere, and are supposed to be somewhat selected Amperex "white label PQ" 6922 for the US Navy. It's probably the exact same tube, which was intended for premium use anyway.
Looking forward to comparing it with the OG tube; hopefully that'll round out the Amperex/Philips family for me (no, I won't spend $1K on pinched waist Amp'ex tubes lol). If there is a next tube, it will either be a pair (as in an end-game pair) to use in a prettier way on my IV SE, or something new and European. But the way things are looking now, I may just wind it down a little, since my last tube is already tremendously satisfying and since I expect the USN-CEP to give me the same satisfaction. A step up would immediately be something like a CCa, and I'm not using tubes that expensive on a rigged amplifier lol.