sick of tube hunting on ebay,
i just found some cheap telefunkens sold by upscale audio.
ordered
cryo platinum teles
from
http://www.upscaleaudio.com/products/Telefunken-E88CC-%7B47%7D-6922.html
http://www.upscaleaudio.com/products/Telefunken-E88CC-%7B47%7D-6922.html
for 274 bucks
about the same price I paid for what seem to be regular teles sold by tubemuseum.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/290904826507?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
I regret having bought there a few days ago but oh well. Doesn't matter now if I could have bought them for 180 bucks as regular grade tubes with no cryo treatment from upscale-.-they are what you would call best of the best tubes, so I guess I should not be cheap on them--so I went for cryo and platinum instead of taking advantage of the cheaper pricing
Anyone can tell if ( i bought the second pair) are comparable to the upscale audio ones? I have no idea how you can tell which telefunkens are better, they all seem the same except the upscale ones obviously look much newer, or at least from the picture, who knows how many they have and they probably won't even tell you information on the cryo treatment or the results they got for that platinum certification.
also ordered these for end game cryo gold ions
http://www.cryoset.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=81&products_id=324&osCsid=120e2b1e84df8fe47fba3f0f30c1edd2
I already received these but still haven't listened to it much
http://www.ebay.com/itm/400505220853?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
going to compare these seemingly regular lions to the super cryo ones above.
have these coming in
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161055748879?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
http://www.ebay.com/itm/350817155962?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 as end game dampers
I was about to buy this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/390615723907?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
but it seems like they were sold at 60 bucks lowest and this particular listing takes 1.5 month max to get to my place which is absurd so it will have to pass. Not much props heard about these green military JAN amperex 6922 anyways--if i am correct these things should have the globe UFO figure too, as seen on other listings such as this one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Two-Amperex-Globe-6922-6DJ8-tubes-gold-pin-/111048271232?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item19dafe2580&nma=true&si=o4t08HDgpOSol%252FqsA6jc0Jxp5QQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
TLDR/.moral of the story
bought a bunch of ****, made a bunch of mistakes, but I tried, and now I am burnt out mentally physically and financially and I am good to sit back and enjoy the music, oh no wait, i still have 10 pages of tubes on watch list on ebay, some 10 listings outbid, shall I ignore?
I think enough is enough.
I hope people can learn from my experience...just my 2 cents
oh, and as I speak I just ordered these cryo-ed platinum grade
http://www.upscaleaudio.com/matsu****a-national-pcc88-7dj8/
for a subtotal of 86 bucks..OMG what is wrong with me.--
after i bought them I checked the 37 reviews, and found at least one other LYR owner who bought the exact same thing. CHEERS
All the meanwhile I am listening to some Kertesz/ancerl/kubelik/paray/neumann Dvorak From the New World 9th symphony.