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Had a Big5 with 6sn7 and 6x5. Rob (thanks again) helped me decide what to upgrade to. Was originally thinking Big7 with some part upgrades but ended up with Balanced GG. In any case, my setup is probably quite different than most of you. We moved when my wife was pregnant so my stereo setup was put into storage and is still there. No chance to play it like it deserves with the babies around. Ended up building out headphone setup instead which I can play as loud as I like. Hope the GG will eventually go to my 2 channel setup, but in the meantime, headphones it is.
Primary Setup(s) is:
Stax SR009 with KGSSHV and Headamp BHSE amps
Sennheiser HD800 and Audeze LCD X with Headamp GSX MKII Eddie Current 2A3 MKIV
So in any case I have a few questions for you Big7/GG Experts after stalking this forum as other Lampizator forums for last few weeks:
1) Which tube types can the Balanced GG use?
2) Tak 274b or WE 274a/b? Can't find where someone made a direct comparison even though some talked about it.
3) Do you need quad matched or 2 matched pair is okay?
4) Anyone try Marconi PX4 with Big7/GG? Have a line on them.
5) Elrog reliability? Talked to George at TubesUSA and he still wasn't recommending using Elrog with GG. I read through the various threads on Elrog reliability. There was supposedly some issue around amps at edge of WE300 specs having problems and that they redesigned tube to fix but still problems afterwards. So is the tube still problematic or fine for GG?
Thanks in advance and really looking forward to hearing the GG.
Primary Setup(s) is:
Stax SR009 with KGSSHV and Headamp BHSE amps
Sennheiser HD800 and Audeze LCD X with Headamp GSX MKII Eddie Current 2A3 MKIV
So in any case I have a few questions for you Big7/GG Experts after stalking this forum as other Lampizator forums for last few weeks:
1) Which tube types can the Balanced GG use?
2) Tak 274b or WE 274a/b? Can't find where someone made a direct comparison even though some talked about it.
3) Do you need quad matched or 2 matched pair is okay?
4) Anyone try Marconi PX4 with Big7/GG? Have a line on them.
5) Elrog reliability? Talked to George at TubesUSA and he still wasn't recommending using Elrog with GG. I read through the various threads on Elrog reliability. There was supposedly some issue around amps at edge of WE300 specs having problems and that they redesigned tube to fix but still problems afterwards. So is the tube still problematic or fine for GG?
Thanks in advance and really looking forward to hearing the GG.