Tubes for Shindo Aurieges L

Thanks Ahendler. Here is the reply from the very nice guy Jonathan Halpern of Tone Imports.

"The tubes wil be either ELC86 x 2 and 6X4 or LCP86 x 2 and 6X4- LCP86 and ECL86 are interchangeable. Either way, unless you've logged more than 10,000 hours of use, the stock tubes should be perfect and testing above new. The Aurieges runs tubes very gently as do all Shindo components".

The whole point of Shindo is you don't have to tube roll. Ken uses vintage parts and NOS tubes throughout.

You are looking at the preamp the wrong way---if you really want to roll, switch to a Cary SLP98 or something.

Keithr,
Amen.

I have tried several brands of NOS tubes in my Shindo Monbrison and they all had different characters. So why don't tube roll and be delighted to "taste" the differences between the different tubes. In a good system it should rather be fun than stress, at least with a Shindo amp.

Note ECL86 and LCP86 and are NOT interchangable. The advice posted above is WRONG. The ECL86 is no substitute and doesn't work in the current Aurieges.