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Old 11-24-2018, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by jdandy View Post
Charles.......Remember, too, the Gold Lions benefit from at least 50 to 60 hours of break-in. If you are attempting to identify performance perimeters, you should give the tubes sufficient time to reach their full potential. Passing judgement on new vacuum tubes with low hours yields inaccurate results for the long run.
These GLs saw time in the 2300 previously, but that was two years ago. A little over 60 hours. So I shouldn't count them as broken in, since it's been so long since they were fed a signal, right?
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