Lampizator Valve / Tube Rolling Review Thread
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Also, it is just not fair to post on the "best tube ever" and nobody can ever get it.
That's the first law of valve rolling. Hype something unobtanium then nobody can dispute it.
Works every time. Til you track said item down and realise you have been had!
A new addition to the family
Very similar to a U52 in plate structure.
If this one is pointed at me - I did not write "best tube ever" anywhere, as there are no best tubes ever. I merely pointed out to this particular tube based on experience from several guys I know very well and I trust their ears. Also I don't have it as such and won't have it, but was informed by quite a few guys that they can't dig it out from normal channels. So this obviously is not the case and tube chasers will obviously be able to judge if it was BS or not what I passed as info...Also, it is just not fair to post on the "best tube ever" and nobody can ever get it.
Wish you a happy tube rollling
If anyone is looking for GZ480 take a look at Alibaba.com and aliexpress.com or eectech.store (they are sold out right now)
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I like what they say about the EMS shipping option: "EMS can deliver liquid, powder and some counterfeit products." Reassuring...
With the pandemic, international mail to the States is having a hard time getting through USPS International Service Centers (ISC), especially in New York and Chicago. Airpost of a GZ32 from the Toronto area just took four weeks, and Thursday will make two weeks a U52 has been sitting in ISC Chicago.
My Tesla AD1ns from the Czech Republic haven't shown up in USPS tracking since being shipped out on April 14. Interesting times for luxuries such as these.
With many fewer planes in the air, mail is coming and going across the Atlantic and Pacific mainly by boat, just like the old days. I sent a couple of Audio Magic fuses to Vietnam, and they haven't been heard from since departing SF on April 17.
Adam, Fabio was waiting for his tubes from Luke (Prague - Zurich) more then 4 weeks. I guess using horses (Pony Express) would be faster...only reliable means of transport these days are DHL/UPS/FedEx but the prices are....
BTW I'm having my tubes locked in London for last 10 days using DPD which should be express delivery (like DHL)
All one can do is remain patient. This pandemic is teaching us all to take a step back and chill, fill the void with other more meaningful things and be pleasantly surprised when things show up.
Thanks. Unlike the Teslas where I have had the adapters for quite a while, with these, the adapters are yet to arrive from China
Speaking of adapters, I'd love to find a Woo 596 to 5U4G adapter that someone no longer has need for. Woo's price for these as gone from $100 to $150 over the past few months.
Not Woo Audio Adapter but I have been keeping an eye on this one for awhile in case I stumble across 596 tube
https://www.ebay.com/itm/596-To-5U4...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
DHL is like FedEx and UPS, i.e., entirely different than the underfunded, poorly managed USPS. International express and priority mail are experiencing the same fate as first class. The Canadian GZ32 seller told me last week that an Express shipment to Kentucky was still sitting in NY ISC after three weeks.
@shadowlight I have one of those (different Hong Kong seller). I can't tell if the occasional short crackling I hear through the speakers with it and the 596, but apparently not other rectifiers, is caused by the adapter or the tube. My first guess is the adapter, given their poor reputation. The tube was an NOS with about 300 hours now that came from dminches, I recall vaguely (or someone else on the TRP thread).
@shadowlight I have one of those (different Hong Kong seller). I can't tell if the occasional short crackling I hear through the speakers with it and the 596, but apparently not other rectifiers, is caused by the adapter or the tube. My first guess is the adapter, given their poor reputation. The tube was an NOS with about 300 hours now that came from dminches, I recall vaguely (or someone else on the TRP thread).
I think it is probably the 596 TBH.
Here's an interesting article on baking NOS valves to get them back into their stride. Really.
http://www.r-type.org/articles/art-223.htm
Here's an interesting article on baking NOS valves to get them back into their stride. Really.
http://www.r-type.org/articles/art-223.htm
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