There's nothing like sitting in your favorite chair with a good wine while listening to some of your favorite music. ![Wine :wine:](https://www.audiocircle.com/Smileys/audiocircle/wine.gif)
What flavor of tube amp goes with that wine? Oh...El84's with Lambrusco.
Maybe a push-pull KT88 with a little Burgundy.
Some sparkling 6L6's with Campaign! Single ended, push-pull, whatever!
Tube amps do set the mood for some good times! That goes for tube preamps as well. ![Cool 8)](https://www.audiocircle.com/Smileys/audiocircle/icon_cool.gif)
Hi Blair and all Audio Circle members.
There’s nothing like sitting in my super comfortable leather lazy boy chair listening to my Niteshade Audio SE-15 glowing tubes amplifier driving my GR Research V1 Open Baffle speakers playing my favorite The Ventures LP.
No wine, no soft drink, no alcohol, no beer…
I know, my life must be boring; well I have other things to compensate, like my tube sound system.
My recipe for good music is two big 6L6, one small 6SN7 and a huge 5U4 put that into an almost empty under the hood Niteshade chassis and you have some sweet flavored music.
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The main reason why I took the tube road, it’s mainly because it reminds me of the good old days when tube amplifiers were the only type of amplifiers available.
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First mono tubes amplifier I design and built myself when I was 18 years old, that’s 45 years ago.
5Y3, 6SN7 & 6F6 salvaged from old TVs relatives and friends gave me.
I soon will be 63 years old.
I also like the non aggressiveness of tubes and the mood tubes create with their glowing filaments when all the lights are turn off.
The following amplifiers really don’t create a mood for relaxation, they what I call : COLD !
No red wine, only red glowing filaments.
Guy 13
You could also call me the tube guy.