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Difference between Amperex 6922 pinched waist tube
You hit the nail on the head, the pinched waist are considered the holy grail of the 6299 family. Depending on the function of this tube in your gear you may not notice much an improvemento over the CCa which is head and sholders above the standar... 
Siemens, Rohre or Halske
The CCa are proported to be the better of the two. They are priced like the entire tube is made of gold and not just the pins.Depending the position in your gear for the tube and its function you may or may not be able to tell the two apart though. 
tube manufacturing
Based on everything I have read there was a great deal of "black art" involved in mfg vacuum tubes. A great deal of this information has died with the people involved in the business. Remember these tubes were made long before ISO 9000 was around ... 
Budget tuner?
FM broadcast signals are bandpassed so everything above 15 Khz is clipped out of the audio signal. With this in mind no FM station will reach CD quality so spending as little as you need to (assuming the rest of your gear and your ears are up to t... 
What tubes would you suggest for the following....
Of the current production KT-88 tubes available on the market I would rank them in the following order based on my equipment and my ears:JJEHOther RussianAnything ChineseLet your ears be the real judge. 
I need help selecting speaker cables
A general rule of thumb is to spend 10% of your system cost on speaker\interconnects.Some people rave about DIY speaker cables made from orange entension cords bought at Home Depot. Others spend $30,000 and up.Let your wallet, ears and piece of mi... 
How does a good mp3 sound?
For a portable mp3 is okay but in a HIFI application all lossy codecs are lacking. Ogg Vorbis (codec) while being lossy seems to me to produce near CD quality if you encode at 256kbps VBR or higher. BTW there is no way in the world any lossy codec...