[palchiu]

Put the tube damper on the tube, is that will really effect the sounds?

Any one try the tube dampers?


Thanks!

 

[braillediver]

Yes. Yes.


Mitch

 

[Salt Peanuts]

Yep. I've had couple microphonic tubes and dampers do actually help with them.

 

[immtbiker]

Luv my tube dampers

 

[NotoriousBIG_PJ]

I find they make a small positive difference.

Biggie.

 

[Jon L]

Quote:

Originally Posted by palchiu Put the tube damper on the tube, is that will really effect the sounds? Any one try the tube dampers? Thanks!

First of all, you gotta use a good tube damper. Not all are created equal. Herbie tube dampers seem to hit the price/performance ratio sweet spot.

Also, tube dampers will show most benefit when speakers are used. It's the vibrations from speaker/room that's most detrimental to microphonic tubes. In a pure headphone system, tube dampers may not have such big effects, especially if the tubes aren't overly microphonic (all tubes are microphonic to some degree if fed enough vibration).

 

[warubozu]

If you have a set of tubes that are noisy or has microphonics, use tube dampers to silence them. As mentioned they can also improve sonic qualities of a quiet tube. I have Herbie's Halo tube dampers, they aren't expensive at all and does the job it was designed to do.

 

[Asterix]

My amp uses tube dampers on the 6AQ8 tube, and 2 of the 12AX7 tubes. They are a bit loose because of the tube rolling I did to the amp. I have tried to tighten them back as much as possible, but I don't think they are quite as tight on the tubes as they were before I messed with it. Will this affect anything?