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Originally Posted by keef
I think a lot of modern day tube preamps are hard on tubes. I have several that vary, CJ premier 14, et5, and Audio Research ph5 all eat tubes. Allnic h3000 and dehavilland ultra verve 3 tubes have lasted thousands of hours.
The old adage that signal tubes last 1,000 to 1,500 hours is complete bull for some preamps.
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Think they may be trying to do too much with too few tubes. When they get down to less than 2-tubes per channel invariably they have started adding solid-state devices in the signal path, which we all know is an audio-abomination creating an aura of bad juju  in the listening space, upsetting the audio gods. My preamp has eight (8) tubes. Seems about right to me.  Nice aura. 
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