HellooooThar
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Hm. Sounds neat-I wonder how running a tube buffer in front of the Vali 2 would sound. Maybe you could find a tube pairing that would be the best of both worlds. That would be an interesting experiment!So far very good. Very slightly less low end than the Vali but better detail in the bass. More forward in the vocals. Vali sometimes has better mid bass transient response. Slightly smoother high end. At times hard to tell them apart.
As an aside, I finally got my hands on a Sylvania 6CG7 triple grey plate, silver shield (circular getter) today. It was pretty hard to find actually. It seems to do really well-first thing I noticed was how little impurity must have burned off during manufacturing-there is so little burn off residue (silver stuff) at the top.
The 6N1P still wins in my book though. More exciting sound-the too end of the Sylvania 6CG7 seems BORING. It sounds good, but super neutral. I don’t want to say solid state, but kinda?