Tube dampeners on ARC gear ... FREE TWEAK
georgelofi 1,520 posts 06-01-2016 5:40pm "If going down this path, don't buy "audiophile" ones that rip you a new one with pricing. Just pick your poison from here. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR3.TRC2.A0.H0.Xsilicon+O+r... Cheers George" Sure, you can use the inexpensive ones, that is if you're enamored of that rolled off closed in sound. Like everything else in audio and life sometimes you get what you pay for. |
Hey it's not voodoo, all they do is to damp the cheap thin glass of todays new tubes from ringing, nothing else. Nothing inside of the metal tube structure itself anodes, cathodes, grids, getters, heaters ect, as that stuff is all bonded to the base material. If you want dead thick glass you have to look at NOS tubes. And no, any type of tube damper will not stop a tube from being microphonic. Cheers George |
