ThurstonX
Headphoneus Supremus
Everyone is relieving me of my paranoia, thanks a bunch. I just decided to do a little googling around and couldn't find anything at all, which is probably simply due to my inexperience. I'll likely do a bunch of studying up on all kinds of tubes, as well as a read-through of this thread and some intense website browsing for all manner of tube related fetishes. Guess I'm in for the long haul if I'm gonna get into tubes.
Also, do tubes really have a fairly large amount of impact on the soundstage, resolution, frequency response, and other audible aspects of an amp? I keep reading around that the tubes make all the difference, as if the hardware were secondary to the tubes, since, in my opinion, the amp itself would carry a majority of the sound reproduction, with the tube simply adding spice and flavor on the top. Are people just zooming way in on the differences between tubes to get a more detailed idea on what they sound like, or can tubes really make a $450 amp sound hundreds of bucks more expensive?
Also, sorry for all the questions, I'm simply full of them since I enjoy all this audio research, and I absolutely love to hear other's opinions on a subject I'm interested in. I'm hoping to become notorious on this site for asking hideous amounts of questions about anything and everything audio related so that I can always make an intelligent assumption and get the right gear for exactly the right reasons. Thank you all a whole ton!
This hasn't been posted in a while, and strictly speaking is only fully applicable to the original Lyr, but Lyr 2 owners can roll most of these (check with the Lyr 2 thread - I assume there is one - and/or Schiit, if you're not sure about a particular type).
I made a few minor edits.
original post:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/549508/schiit-lyr-the-tube-rolling-thread/6675#post_9378252
This is a list i made of tubes known to work in Lyr.
6BZ7/6BQ7A/ECC180
6N1P/6N1P-VI/6N1P-EV/6N1P-EB
6N2P (possibly)
6N23P/6N23P-EV
6DJ8
7DJ8
6922
7308
CCa
E88CC
ECC88
ECC85 [6AQ8]
E188CC
E288CC
PCC88
ECC189 [6ES8] (Variable mu, not recommended but sound great to me)
PCC189 (as above)
6CG7/6FQ7 [flabby? see the following]
6GU7 works too, but even more flabby than 6CG7
http://www.head-fi.org/t/673709/schiit-lyr-tube-rollers/3405#post_10942771
HTH.