Those are great sellers, agreed.
I'm replying to this post, but it's really meant for
@Neweymatt
The thing about the tubes used in the Vali 2+, many of the good ones are dirt cheap on eBay. You can get them shipped for about $10-17 each. When you get one in the mail, put it in the amp and give it a listen. If it's a good tube, keep it. If it's trash, you can either throw it in the trash or try to get your money back. There's no need to pay $25-40 from a web store for the same tube you can get for $10 on eBay because you're not guaranteed it's a better tube. For the vast majority of these cheaper tubes that fit in the Vali 2+, the days of having cases of surplus NOS tubes are long gone, and the tubes you can buy for it are most often pulls from old gear or the single NOS tube found in some guy's basement. If a web store tells you "various brands" and can't guarantee you a specific brand upon order, that means they don't have a case, they are reselling random pulls. Nothing wrong with that, but that's what it is.
There's also no urgent need to buy premium tubes that are $45 or more (before shipping). Are they good tubes? Yes. Are they worth the price? Also yes, depending on the amp. But it makes little sense to use tubes that expensive in the Vali 2+ because they won't be "that" much better than a $10 counterpart. By the time you're dropping in $45 tubes, you don't need better tubes, you need a better amp, and then roll in the good tubes.