this statement keeps making it attractive.. (my bank account makes it less so)
Would you say that it performs equally in shaping a nice tone and providing nice tube compression & harmonics ?
I thought the same about the olympic and 12AU7, but I keep reading the guy from shift line advises against it (and that in th mkIIIs I have it is a difficult operation; very tiny real estate and I'm not very handy when it comes to this)