The Reference 6SN7 Thread

[bcowen]

BTW @bcowen new job is keeping him away for long from the forum

I was just watching from the sidelines for a bit to see how long it'd take to have to step in and send you guys to your rooms. About a day. Sheeez.

 

[bcowen]

Bill could have just done this but it does require thought, not much, just a little.

Please note this is the original mini rack system for Schiit medium sized gear, Bill's is a reasonable facsimile.

Some serious listening will take place today and my tube of choice in Incubi is the Melz solid plate 1578 from 1958. It lacks perforations.

But then my Bifrost would have been sideways. The visual horror would have caused endless nightmares.

 

[bcowen]

Where else but in these forums can @bcowen ridicule GE, rip on @Ripper2860, improve his golf cart d(r)iving skills, praise Frankentubes, AND secretly hope for a non-sideways Incubus?....

I can ridicule GE's and @Ripper2860 anywhere (and usually do). But you got me on the Frankentubes.

 

[bcowen]

@bcowen is taking hits

Consider the source(s).

 

[Paladin79]

But then my Bifrost would have been sideways. The visual horror would have caused endless nightmares.

How often do you actually change a setting on a Bifrost??? and besides the power switch is on the back so now you would have much easier access to it. Some people, geesh.

 

[bcowen]

How often do you actually change a setting on a Bifrost??? and besides the power switch is on the back so now you would have much easier access to it. Some people, geesh.

Changing settings is irrelevant -- the front is the front. And I never turn it off anyway, so the power switch is also irrelevant. Just because my amp is uniquely configured correctly doesn't mean everyone else is wrong....they're just not right.

 

[jonathan c]

Changing settings is irrelevant -- the front is the front. And I never turn it off anyway, so the power switch is also irrelevant. Just because my amp is uniquely configured correctly doesn't mean everyone else is wrong....they're just not right.

If “the front is the front”, why do you have a sideways Incubus? PS, if you had a sideways Bitfrost, would you be frostbit......?

 

[jonathan c]

I can ridicule GE's and @Ripper2860 anywhere (and usually do). But you got me on the Frankentubes.

What about the ‘Frontcubus’?...

 

[bcowen]

If “the front is the front”, why do you have a sideways Incubus? PS, if you had a sideways Bitfrost, would you be frostbit......?

I have a perfect Incubus. Everyone else's is sideways. Why? I don't know, other than they're all 90 degrees out of phase in other regards as well.

 

[jonathan c]

I was just watching from the sidelines for a bit and see how long it'd take to have to step in and send you guys to your rooms. About a day. Sheeez.

I’m glad that we still have what it takes...

 

[jonathan c]

I agree for small signal tubes, but GE 6550 and 6550A tubes are outstanding, as is the GE 5998A. I will give your castoffs a good home,

The GE 5998A is ++. I have four.

 

[HTSkywalker]

Who would smuggle GE tubes...that is why it was a WE extension...

Normally in smuggling business you use misleading labels and GE is the best label in this case

 

[HTSkywalker]

I agree for small signal tubes, but GE 6550 and 6550A tubes are outstanding, as is the GE 5998A. I will give your castoffs a good home,

Lately the GE tubes are having a good run with the latest findings but definitely not worth smuggling

 

[HTSkywalker]

I was just watching from the sidelines for a bit to see how long it'd take to have to step in and send you guys to your rooms. About a day. Sheeez.

See !!! It would take us less than a day to leave our rooms and start gossiping

 

[HTSkywalker]

Consider the source(s).

We were missing you