Difference between KT88 EAT and NOS in Jadis

Rodman99999,

Do you have any personal long term experience with EAT tubes that you can share?

I was very interested in EAT KT88 a few CES shows ago, in spite of their cost. What stopped me was a heated discussion between EAT and a very high end American tube amp manufacturer concerning reliability.

That tube amp manufacturer now uses Wing C tubes, so I'm wishing for more data.

Let me know how they sound, I won't be buying them at $325.00 each regardless of warranty. I pay high for 10,000 hour tubes but KT88 and 6550 are not in that category, at least not in VTL 750s or CATs.

Maybe if a quad would serve my whole system the price would not look so bad. Since I have two pair of 750s the total for a single fitting of EAT would be $15,600.00.

Hopefully things have changed since last year. Here are comments at Audiogon on the subject of Gold Lion that I found via search:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1170361371