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Re: Old and Reissue Tung-sol 6550

I agreed with you totally. We should be getting better tubes. In reality, things are not the same. That was then and this is now.

I have been using NOS black plates for my ARC VT 50. When the NOS died, I tried all kind of new production tubes, and the sound was not the same. It does not sound right and the sonic quality is inferior to the NOS. It was hard to describe the difference. I did not enjoy the music reproduced by the new production tubes. I thought it was only me and my imagination. My wife who is not an audiophile even commented one evening the voices of Amanda McBroom and Mary Black sounded awful, the songs did not have feelings.

At the end, I broke my piggy bank to purchase a new set of NOS black plate, the magic was back. That was my personal experience. Could someone kindly explain this to me?

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