Hey there Sarge, Gary here. Love the R8, so glad I picked one up too, and via Amazon, the price has not budged in a long time! I may have mentioned to you in another video comment area. I changed all my tubes out to JJ Electronics. So you and I share the same 6SN7 in the pre stage . I went with the JJ EL-34's. I wonderful match up with the Forte Fours. The JJ tubes are NOT Russian OR Chinese, but are from the Poland/Ukrane from the original TESLA tube company. They are also at a great price point. I see you are also in Triode Mode too 😉 I hope you can get your amps fixed up to 100% Enjoy! (PS. You got LOTS of stuff there 😊)
Thank you very much my brother, thanks for the heads up on the different types of tubes as well, beautiful amp, sounds amazing, will try to get #4 bias pot repaired soon, yea my friend, we think alike.
What make is the big 6SN7 front centre on the R8? I’ve heard some people saying it doesn’t impact sound that much, but what is your experience please? Lovely sound from the Willsenton R8. Thank you for the video , hope you get your amps fixed real soon
Thanks for the tube tour Sarge. Hope you can get her fixed.
Btw, have you ever listened to the Carver Crimson 350 tube amp?
At a couple of audio shows, and Bob himself was there, like what I heard.
Very interesting! Thanks, Sarge!✌🏾
I had a Shanling monoblock do that. Ended up being a bad pot which was pretty cheap to replace
I will look into it, thanks for the info.
Hey there Sarge, Gary here. Love the R8, so glad I picked one up too, and via Amazon, the price has not budged in a long time! I may have mentioned to you in another video comment area. I changed all my tubes out to JJ Electronics. So you and I share the same 6SN7 in the pre stage . I went with the JJ EL-34's. I wonderful match up with the Forte Fours. The JJ tubes are NOT Russian OR Chinese, but are from the Poland/Ukrane from the original TESLA tube company. They are also at a great price point.
I see you are also in Triode Mode too 😉 I hope you can get your amps fixed up to 100% Enjoy!
(PS. You got LOTS of stuff there 😊)
Thank you very much my brother, thanks for the heads up on the different types of tubes as well, beautiful amp, sounds amazing, will try to get #4 bias pot repaired soon, yea my friend, we think alike.
What make is the big 6SN7 front centre on the R8? I’ve heard some people saying it doesn’t impact sound that much, but what is your experience please? Lovely sound from the Willsenton R8. Thank you for the video , hope you get your amps fixed real soon
I think that they are PS VANE, I'm away from home 🏡 right now will double check when I get back.
It's a Linlai tube, this company ventured off Psvane, who ventured off from Shugang.
I've never really compared the two tubes, I actually just like the big tubes look.