You think those Lion's are worth the cash (really?)? Drew?
I've looked at them a few times. Can you really hear the difference?
Do you own a tube tester?
I've never tried the Lions, but I've tried a bunch of other tubes like.. "Gold pin this or that". On the tester, and to my ears (which I don't mean to toot my own horn, but my ears are usually pretty good. and...) I haven't ever really seen/heard that much difference between the expensive tubes like the gold pins and etc.. As long as I test the tubes and pick good ones from the cheap stock, they're just as good (and even sometimes I've found some cheap tubes that were better). I mean I have heard some really old RCA/Tesla tubes etc that blew my mind, but other than that... I haven't seen where its been worth the money.