Perhaps I should follow Dsremer's lead and invest in good wine and forget exotic tubes. Now you may like Chardonnays for reason of their peppery quality and I may dislike them for that same reason. The peppery quality remains.
Tubes too indeed have characteristic sonic qualities as does everything else in the component chain. For instance, in the 6DJ8 family, I have never heard a Telefunken that didn't have soft, warmish sounding bass relative to say a Mullard which I would characterize as quicker cleaner, with more dynamic impact. Then again Teles have those liquid mids and highs. Though you may like what you like and that's how it should be, I doubt any of you that have experience with the afore mentioned tubes would question my objective observations. We need a peoples point of reference and a common objective language.
My system:
Porter Ports (20 amp cryo)
Eichman Express Power
Denon 3910
Synergistic Research Designer Reference Interconnect 1m
DK VS-1 Mk III:
Synergistic Research Alpha Quad Active 4m
Synergistic Research Designer Reference FX Interconnect 4m
NuForce Ref 9s
Synergistic Research Designer Reference Spkr Cable 2m
Von Schweikert VR4 Jrs
I'm using Valvo E188CCs in the DK
If you still think I'm all wet (as opposed to lucid with great midrange sparkle), I'll discontine this thread.
Tubes too indeed have characteristic sonic qualities as does everything else in the component chain. For instance, in the 6DJ8 family, I have never heard a Telefunken that didn't have soft, warmish sounding bass relative to say a Mullard which I would characterize as quicker cleaner, with more dynamic impact. Then again Teles have those liquid mids and highs. Though you may like what you like and that's how it should be, I doubt any of you that have experience with the afore mentioned tubes would question my objective observations. We need a peoples point of reference and a common objective language.
My system:
Porter Ports (20 amp cryo)
Eichman Express Power
Denon 3910
Synergistic Research Designer Reference Interconnect 1m
DK VS-1 Mk III:
Synergistic Research Alpha Quad Active 4m
Synergistic Research Designer Reference FX Interconnect 4m
NuForce Ref 9s
Synergistic Research Designer Reference Spkr Cable 2m
Von Schweikert VR4 Jrs
I'm using Valvo E188CCs in the DK
If you still think I'm all wet (as opposed to lucid with great midrange sparkle), I'll discontine this thread.