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Re: Cryo Valves

I take it you have regular access to a cryostat Morgan???!!!

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Re: Cryo Valves

Rocket wrote:

I take it you have regular access to a cryostat Morgan???!!!

We get fortnightly deliveries of 100L of liquid nitrogen.     30% of that usually goes to waste, someone has to use it for something.

big_smile

From time to time my lab gets a smaller 25L delivery which unfortunately has to be plugged in to an instrument, no play time with that.

hmm

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Re: Cryo Valves

I found this interesting on the cryo tubes site

"JJ/TESLA CRYO VALVES
WATFORD VALVES has Cryogenically treated some of the more popular and best sounding JJ/Tesla valves. This process makes a permanent change and the benefits do not deteriorate over time or upon return to operating temperature, it changes the whole way the vacuum tube performs. The biggest benefits I have found has been a dramatic improvement in dymanic range. Bass response has been clearer with reduction in microphonics.The soundstage is bigger with more detail with a big reduction in the noise floor. The really most starling fact has been how the valve operates under saturated and overdriven conditions in guitar amplifiers. The distortion is smoother with less hardness and is musically pleasing to the ear. "

http://www.watfordvalves.com/products.a … amp;man=99

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Re: Cryo Valves

NPB_EST.1979 wrote:

I found this interesting on the cryo tubes site

"JJ/TESLA CRYO VALVES
WATFORD VALVES has Cryogenically treated some of the more popular and best sounding JJ/Tesla valves. This process makes a permanent change and the benefits do not deteriorate over time or upon return to operating temperature, it changes the whole way the vacuum tube performs. The biggest benefits I have found has been a dramatic improvement in dymanic range. Bass response has been clearer with reduction in microphonics.The soundstage is bigger with more detail with a big reduction in the noise floor. The really most starling fact has been how the valve operates under saturated and overdriven conditions in guitar amplifiers. The distortion is smoother with less hardness and is musically pleasing to the ear. "

http://www.watfordvalves.com/products.a … amp;man=99

I read it and I don't believe it at all.  It all sounds like hyperbole.  Too much subjective talk (and the blurb is the same for all the brands they treat).  Propriety= "I ain't telling you nothing". But ears do determine desire.... As do eyes when buying fancy cars from salespeople...


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