PS Audio BHK preamp owners

I also believe the change in bias is so that one can use either 12AU7s or the 6DJ8 family of tubes.  I've switched between those two but never tried different settings for the same tube type.

PS Audio has its own forums and you may find more discussion of this there.

Jbrrp

actually, it’s the other way around, PSAudio suggests 4 miiliamps for the 12au7’s that they ship the BHK pre with and 5 milliamperes when you change to the 6 volt tubes. 

My question is, and I wasn’t clear about it when I first posted the question, has anyone tried a 12au7 and increased the bias to 5 milliamperes? I don’t want to just try it if it’s possibly going to hurt the preamp. A gentleman on the PS Audio forum tried a Tungram 7dj8 which is supposedly Bascom’s (the designer and the B in BHK) favorite tube and he set the bias first to 4 milliamperes and then tried the 5 milliamperes setting and stated, and I quote, “I was amazed at how such a small increase of just 1 milliamperes can make such a big improvement”. Now I’m curious but I don’t want to blow the damn thing up to fing out. Thanks.

Scot

I think you should just call PS Audio.  They are happy to answer questions and they've probably gotten this one before.  

Tomcy6

good advice, I wii give them a call on Monday. Thanks. Do you know if they stopped their own forum? I can’t find any recent posts. 

Scot

Scot,  I think their forums are active, but not very active.  Since their amps and preamps have been around a while now there's not a lot of people asking and commenting on them.

I know when they switched over to their new forum format they deleted posts in the old format and deleted a bunch of posts with a lot of information.  I don't know why they did that.