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Takatsuki 300B words finest audio tube
https://trueaudiophile.com/takatsuki-30 ... ds-finest/

The original Western Electric 300B is considered by many cork sniffers as the
best sound audio tube.

New build at $2499.00 per pair for the Takatsukis.
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Oh man, poking around an audiophile website is going to result in a particular brand of stupidity.

That said, I pulled my EICO HF-87 off the shelf last week after taking the picture for the amplifier thread and did a periodic internet check-up on it as one is wont to do. In the time that amp has rested with a non-advantageous boot-strap modification on the power tube cathode resistors (self biasing as stock), a few big brains have been tinkering on the modification front in a way that reportedly makes this amp a much nicer listen than before.

So it's time for another re-wire, and I am considering splurging on the four coupling caps in the circuit with these:
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crochambeau wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 9:05 am Oh man, poking around an audiophile website is going to result in a particular brand of stupidity.

That said, I pulled my EICO HF-87 off the shelf last week after taking the picture for the amplifier thread and did a periodic internet check-up on it as one is wont to do. In the time that amp has rested with a non-advantageous boot-strap modification on the power tube cathode resistors (self biasing as stock), a few big brains have been tinkering on the modification front in a way that reportedly makes this amp a much nicer listen than before.

So it's time for another re-wire, and I am considering splurging on the four coupling caps in the circuit with these:

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https://www.partsconnexion.com/product49867.html
So I cut an order yesterday with AES, and while there I decided to "cheap out" instead on a quartet of Solens: https://www.tubesandmore.com/products/c ... ylene-fast

About a quarter of the cost of my prior temptation and still a probable significant upgrade from what I've got installed currently.
When in doubt, add resistance.

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