Worst Tube Gear?

Early B.
Early B. Posts: 7,900
edited February 2006 in 2 Channel Audio
I rarely run across a thread or review where a piece of tube gear is a POS. Anybody buy or audition a tube component that they would not recommend?
HT/2-channel Rig: Sony 50” LCD TV; Toshiba HD-A2 DVD player; Emotiva LMC-1 pre/pro; Rogue Audio M-120 monoblocks (modded); Placette RVC; Emotiva LPA-1 amp; Bada HD-22 tube CDP (modded); VMPS Tower II SE (fronts); DIY Clearwave Dynamic 4CC (center); Wharfedale Opus Tri-Surrounds (rear); and VMPS 215 sub

"God grooves with tubes."
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited February 2006
    I've got a Seeburg 25w juke amp my neighbor give me. It will play music. If you wiggle the tubes right.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited February 2006
    No.
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited February 2006
    Oh hell yes!!! I bought a POS DIY tube amp from some guy off ebay, it was supposed to be rated at 35 or 50 wpc (can't remember exactly) The thing distorted so bad that I took it to a local shop to have it tested for the actual output. It failed miserably after hitting about 12 watts, it clipped something fierce. I was able to get my money back and Hoosier21 (Russ) sold me a BEAUTIFULL ASL amp that I use to this day. It's powering Deb's 2 channel SDA rig.
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  • cmy330go
    cmy330go Posts: 2,341
    edited February 2006
    I personally have never experienced a bad piece of tube gear. But a few months ago I was talking to someone at upscale audio about the ASL Wave 20s that they were clearing out, and I asked him why. He told me that as a whole the ASL gear was very low quality, and that they had far too many problems with them so they were dropping the whole line. He also mentioned having one customer who's Wave 8 burst into flames.

    Now as mentioned before this was just another man's comments to me. I have nothing against ASL, and have seen a number of favorable comments about them both here and in other forums and reviews. But I guess it does go to show that there is definitely some bad tube gear around.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited February 2006
    My Wave 20s haven't had any problems at all. I assume they are about a year old, as I got them from Doro at PFest 2005 and I think he got them early in 2005 new in box. I had heard they would drift out of bias quite a bit, but I check them once a week and so far the haven't drifted out of spec tolerances. They are supposed to be ar 330 and have never been further than 2-3 off at any time I've checked them. IMO, they would be hard to beat for the $350/pair they have been selling them for at Upscale.
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited February 2006
    Kinda like a "b"job. Ain't never had a bad one, just some's better 'n others... ;)
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  • cmy330go
    cmy330go Posts: 2,341
    edited February 2006
    amulford wrote:
    Kinda like a "b"job. Ain't never had a bad one, just some's better 'n others... ;)

    WAAAAAAAA!
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    Mits WD-65737, DirecTV, Oppo DV-970HD, XBOX ONE, Yamaha RX-A1030, Parasound Halo A23, Rotel RB-985, Music Hall MMF-7, Parasound PPH-100, LSi-15, LSi-C, LSi-FX, LSi-7, PSW-1000, Monster HTS2600

    2 CH
    Parasound Halo P3, Parasound Halo A21, Sutherland Ph.D, VPI Classic 3 w/ 3D arm & Soundsmith Aida Cartridge, Arcam CD72T, B&W 802 S3, Monster HTS2500,
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