Nick
After listening to what you had and what I sent you what did you decide worked best with the rest of your setup?
Jack,
As you might recall, my Supratek preamp came with 6NS7 Tung Sols and you sent me GEs and Raytheons. It took me a little while, but I finally found some comments I had made that indicated I preferred the Raytheons to the Tung Sols. For the last few months now, I’ve been using the GEs which are very detailed and dynamic. On many/most songs, they’re quite nice to listen to. There is some occasional harshness, but it’s likely mostly recording related.
The tube listening has also been complicated a bit because I bought two Wywires Silver ICs and a Wywires Platinum digital cable. Even though two of the three were used, they needed many hours on them to sound their best.Tonight I’ve put the Raytheons back in again and will be living with that for a few weeks and advise. I will continue to check out the availability of 7N7 tubes if the price is reasonable. It would be a fun ..and inexpensive… experiment.
The sound that I’ve been getting the last few months is so good. There is a synergy with all the gear and the combination of the Audio Envy speaker cables and power cords with the Wywires is quite good.
Nick