Elrog 300b vs we300b

hi there smodtactical : ) - I've had WE pre and post 80s, takatsukis, elrogs, KR audio, and different psvanes, among others, in my LM845P fronted system and only the Chinese tubes and others don't sound quite as realistic. Every single other has a life of their own that you will not make much of a mistake in the least choosing between - yes, and that includes the terribly underrated KR tubes, that cost a fraction of the other highly vaunted ones! The KR is a remarkable tube for how little it costs : )

in friendship - kevin

@kevn

As I recall the KR  and EML are priced pretty similarly. Has that changed recently?

Charles

@kevn  thanks! It seems most of the 'premium' 300b are pretty close to each other price wise with the main stand out the WE reissues being $1500. Everything else is about $800-1200.

Well, here we go again, one gets good results with particular tube another not. I couldn't stand KR 845 in Art Audio Carissa Signature I was running at time, sterile, clinical. It also suffered failure, blew resistors in amp.  Various Chinese 845 tubes have been my choice since, both for AA and now Coincident Turbo 845. You should also know Art Audio stopped recommending KR at some point when I owned AA due to other failures. EML only Eastern European tube manufacturer I feel confident about, I've seen too many failures from others, EAT I have no opinion here.

I've not yet tried Acme in Coincident as drivers, should be interesting.

Takatsuki up around $1600 as well, I saw over $2k on one site lately.