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RE: PP 2A3 vs PP 300B

Shane, hi. Anyone that would give you sweeping advice as to sound quality regarding push-pull 2A3 versus 300B is living in cloud-cuckoo land. I gather you are using fixed bias. Have you considered cathode bias? The Sovtek 2A3 is good but the JJ 2A3-40 is better. The question you pose can only be answered by doing. All advice to the contrary can be considered the quacking and honking of the opinionated (gathering misinformed tidbits from others) to disseminate as would an impotent authority on everything audio. EQ? Don't be silly. EQ will not get you where you want to be. Forget EQ. Have you thought about doing parallel 2A3 or 300B SET? Push-pull introduces its own set of problems. Can one split phase and then recombine successfully with no sonic penalty? OK, you are asking about tubes. The JJ 2A3-40 is superb. Will they "pull more mid through without EQ?" Only you can answer that one.


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