Charles1dad,
My system is presently also using the Coincident line stage that uses the 101D's. Is there a dealer here in the U.S. for the Psvane WE 101D replica? My experience with Grant in Canada was very bad. After paying extra for tubes that were supposed to be within 10% tolerance, they sent most of them within 25% and none within ten. All tubes were tested on my Hickok 539A and George Kay small signal tube tester. Some of the small signal tubes were also very microphonic, and one of them actually showed a short in the Hickok.
That order was placed around ten years ago, and if I recall correctly it was dropped shipped from China. Grant did allow me to send the order to them in Canada for credit, because they did not want to replace the order with the in tolerance tubes that I payed for. They did return credit to my card with the stipulation that I did not ever order from them again, so I was only out shipping cost to Canada.
My only other experience with Psvane tubes was directly from China. One of the tubes was DOA, and they said to return it for replacement. Shipping that one tube back to China cost over twenty dollars by US mail and close to ninety dollars by a shipping company. So I sent it US mail but they don't track mail going to China, and likewise the Chinese seller did not acknowledge ever receiving it.
Evidently ten years ago Grant was cutting shipping costs by trusting the Chinese to actually test the tubes being drop shipped to me. It would be nice to know of a US company that sells the WE 101D replica.
My system is presently also using the Coincident line stage that uses the 101D's. Is there a dealer here in the U.S. for the Psvane WE 101D replica? My experience with Grant in Canada was very bad. After paying extra for tubes that were supposed to be within 10% tolerance, they sent most of them within 25% and none within ten. All tubes were tested on my Hickok 539A and George Kay small signal tube tester. Some of the small signal tubes were also very microphonic, and one of them actually showed a short in the Hickok.
That order was placed around ten years ago, and if I recall correctly it was dropped shipped from China. Grant did allow me to send the order to them in Canada for credit, because they did not want to replace the order with the in tolerance tubes that I payed for. They did return credit to my card with the stipulation that I did not ever order from them again, so I was only out shipping cost to Canada.
My only other experience with Psvane tubes was directly from China. One of the tubes was DOA, and they said to return it for replacement. Shipping that one tube back to China cost over twenty dollars by US mail and close to ninety dollars by a shipping company. So I sent it US mail but they don't track mail going to China, and likewise the Chinese seller did not acknowledge ever receiving it.
Evidently ten years ago Grant was cutting shipping costs by trusting the Chinese to actually test the tubes being drop shipped to me. It would be nice to know of a US company that sells the WE 101D replica.