Tubes in a Pleasant Mood

My wife and I recently spent our honeymoon in Hong Kong. I thought it might be interesting to check out local audio shops. My initial research took me to the Hong Kong Tube Audio Club webpage . In fact, I had subscribed to this yahoo discussion group maybe 10 years ago and forgotten about it. They have a handy guide for the audio enthusiast visiting Hong Kong. Here is a reproduction of their guide map to Central (a district in Hong Kong): I checked out locations 2-6. I was especially interested in #4, Vintage Sound. Unfortunately, this is what I found at 28 Pottinger Street (next door was a tofu shop with a long line): The other locations on the map were now either high-end malls or Omega watch stores. Later that night we took the train to Mong Kok (my favorite part of Hong Kong) to find the famous Tak Fat building mentioned here . That's the Tak Fat building across the street (ignore the "food panda" please) and again there were no vintage audio shop...

I recently changed the output transformers on one of my amps, a Darling with 12sl7 driver. I never felt like I was missing anything with the original Edcor XSE15-8-5K's, but I've been curious about the  Robin Hood series  from Magnequest for a while now. They're probably intended for biamping projects, but I figured the frequency roll-off wouldn't be that noticeable with my full range drivers. After exchanging a few emails with Mike LaFevre, I ordered a pair of RH-60's. The wait was about 2 months. The RH-60's are at least twice as large as the Edcor's, so I had some difficulty clearing out space inside the Darling. Here's the amp with the original Edcor's: Now with the Edcor's removed, new mounting holes drilled, and one Robin Hood installed: Final product: Well, "final product". If you notice, I also changed some of the capacitors to more boutique ones. Ultimately though I was unhappy with the sound - perhaps...