Stefan Elmblad
New member
Im considering buying the TL Audio 5001 and replace the tubes in three of it's channels to get 4 mono channels of different tube sound. Questions is:
1. Is it hard to change the tubes ? Tubes should be replaced now and then so I guess it shouldn't be.
2. Can anyone recommend any tube brands they know that have a very "signature sound". On very clean, one dirty etc whatever.
3. Which brand of tubes is equipped from the factory ?
4. Has anyone tried this before and have some tips ?
5. Most important question, is the Ivory2 series worth the extra cost vs a used Ivory1 ?
EDIT: I see know that the 5001 unit uses some weird wiring, each channel uses half of 2 tubes ???? one ECC83 and one 12AX7 for each 2 channels.... what a fucking moron construction.. oh well, guess I have to settle for 2 stereo pairs of different sonics then. Maybe I should drop this idea.
EDIT 2: Or maybe this stupid configuration only applies to the Ivory2 series ?? anyone know ?
1. Is it hard to change the tubes ? Tubes should be replaced now and then so I guess it shouldn't be.
2. Can anyone recommend any tube brands they know that have a very "signature sound". On very clean, one dirty etc whatever.
3. Which brand of tubes is equipped from the factory ?
4. Has anyone tried this before and have some tips ?
5. Most important question, is the Ivory2 series worth the extra cost vs a used Ivory1 ?
EDIT: I see know that the 5001 unit uses some weird wiring, each channel uses half of 2 tubes ???? one ECC83 and one 12AX7 for each 2 channels.... what a fucking moron construction.. oh well, guess I have to settle for 2 stereo pairs of different sonics then. Maybe I should drop this idea.
EDIT 2: Or maybe this stupid configuration only applies to the Ivory2 series ?? anyone know ?