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Originally Posted by prepress
Thes Telefunken Black Diamonds are the result of a partnership between Telefunken Electroakoustic and JJ Tubes; they're made in Slovakia. I have 12AX7 BD preamp tubes in my C2300 preamp.
I like them best of the tubes I've tried to date, even better than the Gold Lions. To my ears the BDs are more dynamic than the GLs, which is preferable because my setup doubles as a home theater (albeit a 2-channel one), and the extra dynamic oompf serves Blu-ray/DVD movies and concerts well, plus my other sources. I do have some Mullard, NOS Amperex, and JJ Gold-Pin high-performance tubes, as well as some regular JJs and those Gold Lions; now that my power cords and interconnects have been upgraded maybe that would affect any future comparisons should I re-visit that, but for now I like the BDs.
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Thanks for the report. I understand that Tele also makes KT88's, (and was hopeful about a report on them) but are hard to keep in stock. To my ears, the NOS Tele's are the best signal tubes out there. If the new stock comes even close to the old stock they should be extremely good.