Heya all, I'm soon to be the proud owner of my first pair of Smeggy-built Thunderpants (wenge cups, fostex pads). These will be paired with an original CTH amp I recently purchased here based on all the praise that amp has received in terms of its synergy with the TPs. The CTH is already en route to me and will come with a few tubes to get me started. These are (and I'm quoting the builder and seller here) "12BH7A, 6DJ8,ECC82, and 3 6N6Ps (a Russia tube, my fave, great power). I sold another CTH to a ThunderPants user, and he really liked the 6NP6 with them."
My question for those (current and past) Thunderpants owners who've had experience with these cans and the CTH, is what tubes might I also consider grabbing that have nice synergy with TPs in addition to the tubes I mentioned? Ideally, I'd like to have different tubes that are suited to my preferred types of music; tubes that excel in different areas such as - bringing bass extension, impact, etc for electronic genres such as drumnbass, dubstep, etc and perhaps others that excel at imparting the beloved ortho mids for things like jazz, world music, vocals, and classical, stuff like that. I do realize there's a whole thread for CTH tube rolling options, and I'm continuing to peruse it for this info and had considered asking for this advice there instead, but I decided to post my question here as I'm really looking for suggestions on tubes specifically geared for Thunderpants & CTH pairing and I figured this would probably be the best place to find opinions from folks who've heavily experimented with this pairing and would have insight into what tubes do well with the TPs specifically in different ways.
After I've had a chance to thoroughly listen to the TPants and CTH together along with whatever tubes I end up using, I'm planning to write a thoroughly in-depth review of both separately and together, so if I can include a variety of tube-rolling options and notes in my review I'd certainly like to do so. I would be much obliged for any advice you folks would be kind enough to impart! I am so excited to have this combination of cans and amp in my possession that I'm bouncing off the walls.
Thanks again all