[dstubked]

Anyone using the WA22 with a Focal Utopia? Curious about your tubes combination.

I’m using a combination of WE421A for power / Sylvania 6SN7 bad boys for driver / GEC U52 as rectifier. Sounds awesome with my HD800s but it seem to sound a little too full with the Utopia.

Have a USAF 596 inbound from Ebay and currently sourcing for a nice pair of ECC35s..

 

[Autostart]

Hello guys and gals. Doing a little cleaning and would like to offer a sets of tubes that I no longer use. Both work great and sound decent. Not my favorite so I will pass them on to someone if they can use them. You will need the 6SN7 to 6F8G adapters for these tubes.


TUNG SOL VT 163 1945

Note: one of the TS tubes has a tiny metal piece floating around inside but from my ears..... cannot tell the difference.

Does anyone use these adpater that might be interested in these tubes?

 

[Autostart]

VT 163

 

[attmci]

This is one of my favorites (I own 4 pairs) among the 6SN7 variants I've never seen that site before so I can't say anything their, but the ECC35 is absolutely great sounding if you can get them at a good price do it you will love their sq..enjoy

Hey, where do you live?

 

[abvolt]

Unfortunately i'm in California should have moved when I was younger & had more money..

 

[attmci]

Unfortunately i'm in California should have moved when I was younger & had more money..

I was joking because you have four pairs of ECC35.

California is a nice place to live. I am in NJ, so I can feel your pain.

 

[Slerpy]

Anyone using the WA22 with a Focal Utopia? Curious about your tubes combination.

I’m using a combination of WE421A for power / Sylvania 6SN7 bad boys for driver / GEC U52 as rectifier. Sounds awesome with my HD800s but it seem to sound a little too full with the Utopia.

Have a USAF 596 inbound from Ebay and currently sourcing for a nice pair of ECC35s..

Curious what you settle on.
Just picked up a WA22 this week with stock tubes to power my Utopia.
Will be rolling WE422a and TS5998's first (arriving next week).
5998's might be to hot for the phones but couldn't resist all the great reviews.

 

[dstubked]

Curious what you settle on.
Just picked up a WA22 this week with stock tubes to power my Utopia.
Will be rolling WE422a and TS5998's first (arriving next week).
5998's might be to hot for the phones but couldn't resist all the great

well..i sold the wa22 and the utopias and settled on a wa5-le with an abyss..never looked back!

 

[Slerpy]

well..i sold the wa22 and the utopias and settled on a wa5-le with an abyss..never looked back!

Less than 2 months and never looked back, huh?
Guess we can throw diminishing returns out the window after $4000 HP's and $2000 amps.
Congratulations.

 

[dstubked]

Less than 2 months and never looked back, huh?
Guess we can throw diminishing returns out the window after $4000 HP's and $2000 amps.
Congratulations.

dude that post was in feb 2018. welcome to 2019!

 

[Slerpy]

dude that post was in feb 2018. welcome to 2019!

You're right. New Year. New rig.

 

[Dan Lee]

If any of you tube rolling gurus are willing to offer me a little advice I would be very appreciative. I am looking to have a set of tubes to achieve two different sound signatures.

1. I want to hear a more bassy, and open 3 dimensional soundstage. With this I want a euphonic/euphoric sound. (I had an MJ2 for a while and had this sound with some WE and some OTK labeled tubes that was amazing)

2. I want a very detail oriented sound that will pair nicely as preamp to my Carbon amp allowing the crystal clear crunch of rock and metal guitar to come through along with the beautiful snap sound made by a snare drum.

Not sure if these are realistic goals for this amp or not, but if they are I would genuinely appreciate the information.

Also have any of you heard the Ether 2's on this amp and if so how do you like them?

Thanks fellow headfier's

 

[kyle1010]

If any of you tube rolling gurus are willing to offer me a little advice I would be very appreciative. I am looking to have a set of tubes to achieve two different sound signatures.

1. I want to hear a more bassy, and open 3 dimensional soundstage. With this I want a euphonic/euphoric sound. (I had an MJ2 for a while and had this sound with some WE and some OTK labeled tubes that was amazing)

2. I want a very detail oriented sound that will pair nicely as preamp to my Carbon amp allowing the crystal clear crunch of rock and metal guitar to come through along with the beautiful snap sound made by a snare drum.

Not sure if these are realistic goals for this amp or not, but if they are I would genuinely appreciate the information.

Also have any of you heard the Ether 2's on this amp and if so how do you like them?

Thanks fellow headfier's

I can answer #1. That’s my preferred sound signature, so for the WA22 I used a Western Electric 422a (extremely 3D and detailed), Tung Sol 5998s(powerful, warm, and bassy), and some SUPER hard to find Sylvania metal base 6SN7s(outrageous midrange texture and clarity). Sorry, sold the WA22 before I could plug an Ether 2 into it but I have heard the E2s multiple times and they would sound fantastic on the WA22. Hope this helps

 

[Dan Lee]

@kyle1010 that helps alot. Thank u very much. Now i have a direction to go in for that sig. Though the super rare may be hard to find and expensive.

No worries on E2 i am pretty confident it would sound good too.

 

[Roasty]

Favourite Rectifier?

I have the following.

Sophia Electric 274b
Brimar 5Z4G
RCA 5U4G
Emission Labs 5U4G

I quite like the Sophia and the RCA. The Brimar is very smooth up top but maybe a little boring that way.

The WE rectifier is very pricey... Have not considered going down that route..