I'm with John_tracy, I prefer the 6SN7 to either the 12AX7 or the 6922 families. However, execution and circuit design play a major role too. As with most things audio, there are no absolutes.
David
David
6922 6DJ8 or 12 AX7 tubes better for preamp?
Tompoodie, You're right, I was reading your thread title and didn't pay attention to the fact that all the units mentioned in your text are phono stages; my comments were regarding line stages. The Atma-Sphere preamps actually use 12AT7s in the phono section and 6SN7s for output buffering. There are some DIY octal phono stages: http://home.earthlink.net/~jeremyepstein/riaa.html which probably sound great, but no commercial 6SN7 phono stages that I know of. It's tough to get enough gain out of 6SN7s for phono duty. David |