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JoeInOttawa

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  • Birthday 11/30/1999
  1. What is considered NOS in the 5751? The pair I have purchased are both dated 1984.
  2. Didn't I just read "...The current batch of Tung Sol reissues are great tubes and some of the most consistently high in gain of today's production tubes"? Okay, so they're a crapshoot too. What about the LPS? Is that a problem tube? Do you have any suggestions? I'm really looking for a smooth tube. What about maybe going to something lower-gain, like a 5751? Thanks, Joe
  3. Hey Myles, What do you suggest? I seem to remember seeing a suggestion that the Tung-Sols are consistent. I have five EHs, perhaps I should swap a few others in? Hopefully, with the admission that I REALLY like the Sovtek LPS, you have some idea what I'm going for here. Any thoughts? Joe
  4. Hi Myles! Newbie alert! I have recently purchased a Rivera K-Tre 55-watt combo purely on the basis of the spectacular clean channel. When I got the amp home, I discovered it actually had a dirty channel too -- one for which I hold no particular love. I've tried a number of things with greater or lesser success: - I returned the combo to a near-original tube setup (12AX7WBs across the board), and the clean was great, but the dirt was staccato as opposed to smooth -I replaced the tubes with 12AX7EHs across the board, and the whole thing went dark -I put back the 12AX7WBs and added a 12AX7EH in position 1. It all got better, but I still find it a bit staccato-sounding For what it's worth, my other rig is driven by a JMP-1 in which the dirty preamp is run through a 12AX7LPS. It is by far (to my ears) the smoothest gain/overdrive I've heard so far, and is more or less the quality I'm going for in the drive side of the Rivera. Alas, the LPS does not do particularly well in combos. I'm about to order another raft of tubes (probably just in pairs for position 1 and 2) and I'm looking for advice. I'm considering Tung-Sols, JJs, and in an interesting twist, 5751s. Anything else I might like to try? Joe
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