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Originally Posted by Formerly YB-2
Congrats on your new preamp.
However, I wonder about the 6H30P tube.............. with it, one essentially can do little, if any, tube rolling (of which I'm a fan). BAT pretty much introduced the tube to the industry in the previous century and swears that the Soviet era ones are noticeably better sounding & higher quality then the current Russian tubes. However, finding NOS Soviet era 6H30P tubes costs as much as finding NOS Bugle Boys and similar tubes ($$$$). While it is easy to understand the marketing use of the 6H30P by BAT when they first come into the industry, I've never found a satisfactory answer as to why ARC, C-J, Rogue, etc., have moved to the 6H30P in recent years.
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This is an interesting point. I estimated that its increasingly widespread implementation by many brands would result in an expanding field of choices - if not now, then in the future. We'll see I suppose.
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Analog Source: Rega RP10
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Digital Software: Roon, Tidal Streaming
Digital Music Server: Melco N1A/2
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