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Even something lacking GAS can be bad enough
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<blockquote data-quote="Jaded Faith" data-source="post: 146209" data-attributes="member: 1068"><p>By far the best brand of preamp tubes when judged by gain, self noise, heater noise and microphonics are JJ. Nothing but Sovtek come close to them. For consumers, the JJ's sold from Eurotubes are consistently off the charts good.</p><p></p><p>A lot of the Chinese tubes are very good but do have a tendency for pinging noise in the glass. A good shield or dampers fix that most of the time. Do note a lot of the rebranders (GT, TAD & Ruby come to mind) Chinese offerings are typically of worse quality than if you buy standard Shuguang "China" labeled tubes. I believe that's because the rebranders get the leftover stuff.</p><p></p><p>The quality for the money of these two are about as good as it gets right now. Only buy New Sensor company preamp tubes if you trust your supplier (Tube Depot and Tube Store are safe bets). The issues do not impact their power tubes fortunately.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaded Faith, post: 146209, member: 1068"] By far the best brand of preamp tubes when judged by gain, self noise, heater noise and microphonics are JJ. Nothing but Sovtek come close to them. For consumers, the JJ's sold from Eurotubes are consistently off the charts good. A lot of the Chinese tubes are very good but do have a tendency for pinging noise in the glass. A good shield or dampers fix that most of the time. Do note a lot of the rebranders (GT, TAD & Ruby come to mind) Chinese offerings are typically of worse quality than if you buy standard Shuguang "China" labeled tubes. I believe that's because the rebranders get the leftover stuff. The quality for the money of these two are about as good as it gets right now. Only buy New Sensor company preamp tubes if you trust your supplier (Tube Depot and Tube Store are safe bets). The issues do not impact their power tubes fortunately. [/QUOTE]
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