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I agree. I tried and tried to get good sound from the Phillips 5R4GYS. No luck here. Regardless of "uncle kevy's" raves, in my Toriis they were also coolish, distant, a little veiled...they just couldn't quite breath space and music here.
If your Raytheon is an STs (coke bottle) I like those too. My favorite for a while now though are Phillips/Mullard type coke bottle GZ32s (various names and European factories). Mine are Mazda labeled with double bottom D getters. If Mullard type GZ34 are a little dense/thick in your setting, these are a more open alternative.
They all sound a little different, but this particular Philips made tube type is warm, but articulate and open, fast, and deep for a GZ32/5V4G. It does not tend to be as open (and sometimes intense) as some fat bottle 5V4Gs up in the mids and low highs, something that can be good or bad depending on the rest. The Phillips type seem to have a nice balanced frequency balance.
Compared to my Mazda GZ32, the RCA type 5U4G-STs, like the Raytheons I have, are less fast/punchy/dynamic, more even/neutral. And if there is no masking from low end darkness/thickness in the setting, they are very good at micro detail, especially the RCAs I have with single top getters. I used those for years before getting caught by the GZ32/5V4Gs.
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