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In Reply to: Crazy times! Long response . . . posted by JoshT on February 22, 2023 at 14:12:53:
My friends also had a Conrad-Johnson MV-55, which, like the AudioPrism Debut, used four EL-34 power tubes.
The Debut had a built-in meter, so you could try various bias points. AudioPrism recommended, but did not insist upon, 45mA. If you biased above that, in general, the sound became warmer and sweeter. If you biased below that, in general, the sound became more transparent and detailed.
The MV-55 had a scheme, where, for each EL-34, you backed off the bias, until the red light extinguished.
In the early-2000s, I know I was confused about the whole intellectual property issue behind the name "Svetlana."
Also, it just seemed that there'd always be abundant supply of affordable new tubes. We may not have realized that the years would fly by, current-production could fluctuate, and those taken-for-granted tubes from the late-1990s and early-2000s would become "NOS," along with NOS prices.
I still recall the hot and sunny days of Spring 1986, when I was a high school freshman. Back then, my friends were guys, not girls. Some of the guys played electric guitar and bass. They had heard that GE and Sylvania/Phillips were going to stop making 6CA7s and 6550s. One of my classmates claimed that Van Halen's Michael Anthony used GE 6550s in bass amps. But anyway, those friends wanted to stock up, but as kids, we could not afford things like vacuum tubes.
Who would have known that tubes from the early-2000s would be held in the same high regard?
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