Gold Lion EL84 LSS

[zm4]

A few weeks back I got a set of GL EL84s from thetubestore.com and would like to share my findings. The day I got them I instaled them in my LSS with ri tong-sol 12ax7s. I was blown away by how much better they sounded than the JJs and the factory set, more complex and the harmonic overtones where very present. They had and upper mid spike I liked, lows had a tighter less flabby punch through my alinco EV sros. I got to fool around about a week with them and poof, blown fuse, bad tube? TTS sent a replacement set and same result, blown fuse. TTS said to send the set back because they need to study them more. "Quote"

>Well I don't know what to tell you but I think we should try a different
> brand. I looked at our stats recently and we seem to be having more and
> more people report early failures so at this point all I can say is we
> should get these back here for more testing. Hopefully we can then figure
> it out. Please return all of them when convenient.

> One idea I have about these failures is that the amp's screen voltage may
> be too high for these. I believe the screen is rated up to 300V and many
> amps push this. Perhaps the GL just can't handle this.

I ended up getting TADs and very happy so far.
So I just thought Id give back to the guys thats helped me so much.

BTW: Thetubestore was great through all of this!