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May you be very happy thinking that stuff is SOTA

No worse than what's available today.

I left a Citation 11 like yours behind thirty years ago. The PAT-5 that replaced it was better. A later Van Alsine mod of my PAT-5 was better. The Audio Research SP-6 that replaced it was better. The Audio Research SP-9MKIII that replaced it was better still. I have heard a number of other preamps that are better than my reference. I assure you better exists in dozens of models, tube and SS alike. The same is true of virtually every other component.

Do you honestly think someone figured out a new and better way to bias a 12AX7A in the last 30 years?

Do you honestly think that carbon resistors and in-signal electrolytic capacitors, for example, are still the best way to engineer a component?

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