What is your Favorite SET Tube ???

rollo · January 24, 2018, 09:59:25 AM

300B, 45, 50, 2A3 other ? and why.

charles

rollo · March 13, 2018, 12:32:39 PM

Guess no SET owners expect me and Pete G. Well anyway ordered a pair of WE 242D replicas from Pavane. Hoping to arrive late Friday. Using GE211 now. Would love RCA or United but NOS are $3000 a pair if you can even find them.
BTW dealing with Rachel is pure pleasure.

charles

Nick B · March 13, 2018, 03:43:40 PM

Quote from: rollo on March 13, 2018, 12:32:39 PM
Guess no SET owners expect me and Pete G. Well anyway ordered a pair of WE 242D replicas from Pavane. Hoping to arrive late Friday. Using GE211 now. Would love RCA or United but NOS are $3000 a pair if you can even find them.
BTW dealing with Rachel is pure pleasure.

charles

Nope. None of my buddies have SETs and I've only heard them at shows. $3,000 a pair...wow. Let us know what you think of the 242Ds
Nick

Triode Pete · March 13, 2018, 05:15:49 PM

2A3 is my favorite... just wish it had more than 3.5 watts of power... the 50 is up next, but only 5 watts... the 45 is not my cup of tea... blah!

The 300B (Western Electric, Living Voice, Takatsuki) is a great tube, with a beautiful tonal balance... A lot of the Chinese & Russian junk can give the 300B a bad rap... they really aren't 300B's and don't meet the original Western Electric spec's... just sayin...

My $0.02,
Pete

P.I. · March 14, 2018, 05:56:34 PM

I loved my Svetlana 572 tubes... IF one can find a pair that will live. My Cary's were running them too close to maximum limits and there was a couple of internal fireworks shows that were spectacular. They were musical yet muscular.

My dream is to build a KT150 SE amp. I've heard them in P-P amps and they sound very good.

tmazz · March 14, 2018, 08:21:41 PM

I don't have a favorite SET tube because I have never owned a pair of speakers efficient enough to drive with a commercially available SET amp.

tmazz · March 16, 2018, 06:08:39 AM

Quote from: doug s. on March 14, 2018, 08:40:22 PM
Quote from: tmazz on March 14, 2018, 08:21:41 PM
I don't have a favorite SET tube because I have never owned a pair of speakers efficient enough to drive with a commercially available SET amp.
the speakers you own now would be easily driven by my audio mirror amps. unless, 5wpc more than your present amps isn't enough.

doug s.

Your right, that would do the job. In my mind I was equating SET with single power tube, flea watt amps.

Never gave a thought to parallel SET technology in relation to the question in this thread.

My bad.

rollo · March 16, 2018, 08:20:44 AM

Doug that Audio Mirror looks quite impressive. The Almarro 318 as well. Thinking about buying a used one to try with Rethms.

charles

rollo · March 16, 2018, 11:05:44 AM

Contacted Vlad no response yet. The used Almarro is $1300 and local. Decisions, decisions. The line I sell Audio Hungary has a 6C33C mono block offering which I can get for the same price of the Audio Mirror.
I think any of them would be just fine. Just need to hear all first, no assumptions.

charles