As I understand it they Are remakes. The Black Diamond are supposed to be the high grade remakes. I might buy a pair. At worst I could use them for playing Xbox 360/Xbox One games and save my Siemens Cca gray shields, and Reflektor Silver Shield 74's (from Rb2013) for music.
I have a pair of Black. Diamonds and after 200 + hour burn time, they sound very nice. But the Black Diamonds are not nearly as good ad the NOS Telefunken E88CC platinum tubes. I would say the BD's are a good scotch blend, but the NOS Telefunkens are fantastic, 50 year old single malt scotch. I use the Black Diamonds for playing my Xbox 360. And I use Gold Lions for everyday jam sessions . I only use the NOS Telefunken tubes for special listening sessions.
My thoughts exactly. I have a pair of orange globes on the way.
However, if anyone in this thread has a bunch of used tubes in decent quality they don't use anymore and would like to offload, please feel free to PM me =]
I have a pair of Black. Diamonds and after 200 + hour burn time, they sound very nice. But the Black Diamonds are not nearly as good ad the NOS Telefunken E88CC platinum tubes. I would say the BD's are a good scotch blend, but the NOS Telefunkens are fantastic, 50 year old single malt scotch. I use the Black Diamonds for playing my Xbox 360. And I use Gold Lions for everyday jam sessions . I only use the NOS Telefunken tubes for special listening sessions.
Yes but the tubes were cheaper back then. I paid 230$ for a pair a year ago. The stock tubes, for the lyr2, sound alright after 200 + hours of burn time. However I much prefer my Genalex Gold Lions to the stock tubes though.
Yes but the tubes were cheaper back then. I paid 230$ for a pair a year ago. The stock tubes, for the lyr2, sound alright after 200 + hours of burn time. However I much prefer my Genalex Gold Lions to the stock tubes though.
So WHO is Rolling WHAT in their Lyr/Lyr2?
I am about 100 hours into a pair of "Early 60's Siemens Gray Shield Cca's" from Rb. Very balanced and SMOOTH sound. I was listening to Jazz Vocals last night (Tierney Sutton, Madeleine Peyroux, Jane Monheit, and Dianna Krall) and there was a happy,smooth ambience about the sound-and the vocals were SWEET!
I am about to delve further into audio bliss….
Great question. I'm rolling stock tubes now....but, like everyone else here, I gave in to the insanity
So, I took the advice to pick up some cheap tubes on eBay to play with. I have every intention of buying some stupidly expensive tubes later, but I wanted to start small and see how much of a difference - good or bad - tubes could really make.
So, my first two purchases are:
NOS Russian 6N1P matched pair for next to nothing.
I actually expect these to sound pretty bad, but am curious to see how they match up with the much maligned stock tubes.
NOS 1975 OTK2 matched pair
I also got these for next to nothing, but there's some confusion about what I'm expecting to arrive. Anyone want to tell me what these are?
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