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Lamm has been talking about his GM70-based amp for many years, buttering the subscribing to his speeches public. I do not know what the status in there but I would not expect anything relatively interesting. There are many objective reasons why I do not. Lamm latterly switch his products orientation and target market to hi-fi mass-market and currently his company unfortunately does not offer sound that it use to. In addition, some mental and psychological aberrations that Lamm obtained since bought into his industry statues, from my perspective, made him impotent to produces any more or less interesting results.

The Soviet tubes? I do not like them. Most of them snickly vulgar, dirty-colored, have no delicacy and no diminutive discrimination, too brutal, very unreliable, have a huge deviation from specification. Russian tubes Sound is like to massage a human body wearing gloves. Each single time when western equivalents was available the Soviet tubes were in deep lost. Not to mention the practically any Soviet tube, very similar to the majority of of Soviet commercial products, are juts the direct copy-cats of the western model.  I know some people who spread propaganda about the superior Sound of Russian tube but if to look deeply then behind their  views there are or mercantile interest, or plane ignorance or, primitive reference points or juts the typical Russian stupidly-imperial nationalism.

I do not have any observations “ in terms of sense”. I do not think that tubes, any of them have their intrinsic sound. All those tubes wee made “as is” and no one cared how them might sound. The GM70 was made to broadcast the Soviet railways regulation signal and not one ever thought that it might be ever used for any serious sound reproduction. In fact I do not think that anyone even made any tubes consciously and deliberately “for sound”. First of all because no one know or knew how to do it. We juts take the selected by different criteria tubes as they are and try to accommodate them for our purposes.

Why the Soviet tubes sound bad? I do not know and I do not think that they NECESSARY sound bad. They sound bad in comparing to their Western equivalents. However Russians made some their own tubes that were not stolen from West or stolen so poorly that it leaded to the creation of own “off the wall” tubes. Those tubes migh “sound OK” but only God knows how they would sound if West would produce the tubes with the identical characteristics.  It would defiantly would be fun to have for those $7 per tube the  Tungsram, Mazda, Mullard, Raytheon or Sylvania made 6C33C… I am sure if the do them then they would be much more interesting then the Soviet 6C33C

Rgs,
The Cat

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