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In the Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s
Post Subject: Putting in new 6AK5sPosted by Paul S on: 9/29/2007
If I were more scientific I suppose I would do a better job with controlling other factors involved, but in this case the tubes are cheap, so I just swapped them out.  Sound had gotten "disorganized" and bass was weaker, both in a way that reminded me of things new 6AK5s improved when I last replaced them, just 6 months ago.  Who knows for sure if the subsequent improvement in sound in just those areas was mere coincidence, suddenly better electricity, or what?  I suppose I ought to get tha amps warmed up and swap the previous tubes in again as a blind, and maybe I will do this at some point.  Likewise I will tell if the sound reverts to the "pre-new-6AK5 status" with the new tubes installed.

Romy has said that the ML2 is relentlessly "polite", and this may be true, compared to Milquiades, etc.  At this point I much prefer the "organized" ML2 to the "disorganized" one that happens with bad electricity and/or bad 6AK5.

I am a little pissed that my last 6N6Ps only lasted about 4 months.  I hope the 6AK5s will generally last more than 6 months.  It always takes me a while enduring bad sound of one sort or another before the idea of bad tubes dawns on me.

I repeat my current hi-fi mantra:  The system is at least as good as it ever sounded...


Best regards,
Paul S

"...there are certain delicious sensations which are no less intense for being vague."  Charles Baudelaire

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