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Old 15th October 2008   #25
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Originally Posted by mamm7215 View Post
I had jj's in mine until 1 channeln went so I got a real mullard. Big diff, surprising. Stock was grainy/noisy. jj was cleaner so better, I thought. Mullard seems to have more fullness/dimension. I'm going to get another for the other channel, too. Maybe my VLA as well.
That's a good way of putting it. Good vintage tubes have a really deep sound stage and you can hear all the detail. Plus you can push vintage tubes hard for nice saturation and harmonic overtones whereas the newer ones just crap out and get thin/buzzy.
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