Oliver,
IMHO, higher gain does not necessarily mean quality. Croft gear usually have quite high gain, so that even when you use valves with lower gain than the stock ones, you still end up with quite sufficient gain.
Based on my experience, there is quite a lot of potential in Croft amps that remains hidden because of the use of new issue valves instead of NOS. If you can find good NOS (say Tesla E83CC or other, depending on the type), it will be money well spent; every penny of it.
Cheers,
P.
Originally Posted by
OD1
I will be replacing new issue Genelex Gold Lion ECC83's.
In my system the JJ's seem to have higher gain (phono stage only) than all the valves I have swapped in (Mullard / TJ Full Music / & Genelex), could this be due to Glenn using these valves to voice the pre ?
Last edited by pankon; 26-07-2016 at 19:13.
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