Tubes Asylum

For my Anthem Amp-1

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The manual says set EL34 bias between 25ma-50ma. As I can detect no significant difference in sound between 25ma and 50ma bias, I set them to roughly 25ma.

I had a bad socket that was blowing tubes and I finally located and fixed that. I've had some tubes go bad in other sockets which I will attribute to the tubes themselves.

I now have a mixture of all sorts of tubes among the four survivors that seem to be lasting forever. I can't explain why some tubes last and others don't though.

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