I absolutely have to have gold pin tubes in my amps, they sound so much better than non gold pin. I had a whole drawer full of old GE and RCA tubes that were useless to me, that is until i painted the pins gold. Now i can really hear my amp come to life like never before.
I hope you pedal builders learned something from this thread. Keep your mouths shut, keep your opinions to yourselves and if someone talks **** about your product on tgp (the source of every customer you have ever had) thank them and agree with everything they say. It's just good business you...
"he's just terrible" "old guy blooze slop" "he's not a good player" "waving his high post count around" "determine which members should be ignored" "opinions are not equally valid" "is actually a 60 year old bedroom player who is so unaware of how bad he is" "couldn't get a gig to save his life"...
If you mean best in new production, any of them will work, it's all the same crap. If you want to start experimenting with NOS then keep talking with blue strat.