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Riv or anyone still listening-
What's the benefit of buying NOS? Is the vintage stuff really worth the asking price? I can find brand new rectifiers for mere fractions of the cost of the old RCA's, for example.
Also, on a related note, feedback from a more experienced tube jockey: 5Y3GT: probably not the best for hi-fi, good for guitar amp, lacks the headroom of 5U4/5AR4 types 5U4G/GB: directly heated, best for SETs; higher B+ than 5Y3GT thus sounds louder; airy, transparent, dynamic 5AR4: indirectly heated, more warm/veiled/colored/fatter bass, better for pp amps
Is this guy on the money or are these generalizations incorrect? Also, it seems that differences in class of tubes is more relevant than when the tube was manufactured, unless standards have plummeted. Please advise, oh wise interwebs!
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