Wow, high praise indeed. Appreciate the feedback, Stephe. Thank you 🎶😊

My personal review of the PSVANE EL34 Horizon Tubes: After about 12 hours of listening pleasure. Always difficult to describe, my home language is not english. The tube is well balanced, very spacious, what stands out are the details and the sparkling sound. I love that. absolutely no shrill sound. Basses are very nicely controlled. exactly as Skunkie described it.! With these types of new tubes, PSVANE will leave brands such as Tungsol, Mullard, JJ, Gold Lion far behind. The ridiculously priced NOS EL34 are already out of the question for me. An exaggerated hype has arisen around this kind of tubes.

Great news that some new production stuff is made that gets the quality right. NOS stocks start running very low, especially on power tubes, so great that new manufactured tubes starts sounding good! Rare Rave Review!

Looking forward to hearing what you think about the KT88s. Reasonable price and consistent quality would be a good thing to have these days.

Matsushita is better known outside Japan as Panasonic, National and Technics. And their tubes are very underrated.

Just bought a quad of new Psvane 300b Horizon tubes after watching your review. Just started breaking them in. Hope your observations were accurate. Not to worry, they sound pretty already. Replacing older JJ 300b's. I'll comment more after I've had a good listen over the next month.

Great to know these new PSVANE Horizon tubes are improved and sound great. If would be worthwhile to get the upgraded crossover kit for your beloved Klipsch speakers from Danny at GR Research, before re-tuning your amp especially since Klipsch themselves re-tuned their later versions to be closer to Danny's improvements. Plus, it would make some great content for the channel!

Hi Stephe.. I was interested in the Psvane EL34PH (Philips clones), so thanks for giving a review of these much newer Psvane..

I have not listened to this video yet but wanted to say I enjoy all of the PSvane tubes I’ve purchased. In fact my favorite tubes lately are made by PSvane and Linlai (both Chinese). Believe me, I have lots of RCA, GE, Sylvania, JJ, etc… and I listen very critically.

Happy to hear such good praise. Next, you really need to get your hands on the EL34PH Replica tubes :)

Tube school if you are someone like me who is new to tube amplification I have got a lot to learn so a video like this is great for me to learn more Seems like great things are happening for you which are well deserved

Great stuff. Thanks

It is recommended to try PSVANE’s WE101D and WE205D to build the preamp for the transformer output.

Very helpful tube review. Thanks!

I had the Legend series EL34PH for a week and didn’t like them at all. Also have the Classic series KT88C, 2 of them died within 3 weeks. I’m now run 8 Acme KT88 on my Jadis amp, this is a big upgrade sound wise compared to my previous tubes.

The Psvane 12AT7 is very nice also.

The JJ tubes you liked are "E34L." They were originally designed by GE to be a high powered version of EL34. 1990s GE sold the tooling and metallic materials to Groove Tubes, who contracted JJ to mfg them for GT. GT mailed the machines and material to JJ who made a few batches of the tube and they were miraculously awesome, no exaggeration. They were so good, the genius amp designer Mitch Margoles designed a new 100W monoblock amp for Manley Labs called the Snappers, specifically designed to use the GE (Groove Tubes/JJ) E34L tube. They wound custom OPT in house for Snapper which was fully balanced circuit. Nothing good lasts forever, and JJ sold the tube under their own brand and the original GE stock material ran out. JJ substituted their materials and the result was grenades. Snapper ran 525VDC rails and the tubes were popcorn. Manley tried to screen the tubes but more than half were bad, so they had to punt, and shipped EH 6CA7s for a few years, until they redesigned the amp to use whatever typical EL34 they are using now. I am excited to try the new JJ E34L again, because if they have improved the reliability and maintained most of the sound of the original then it is a winner. We've all be screwed by poor JJ quality over the years, so I won't hold my breath. I just wanted to share my info about the history of E34L and why it is/was so good. EDIT: I just looked up GrooveTubes, they are owned by Fender now, but they still sell Groove Tubes GT-E34Ls, which is probably still the same tube made by JJ but maybe better screened than JJ or better warranty from US company.

I recently got a pair of Chinese 300b monoblocks. I got the version that came with a full set of bottom of the line PS Vane tubes -- two each 300b, 6H8C and 5U4M. The full set of tubes raised the price by $130. They work but sound terrible. I'm not surprised that a 200ish dollar JJ 300b sounds better than a $50 PS Vane, lol. I am surprised that they can make one that cheap.

Thanks, Stephe! The new PSVANE HORIZON Series will be available for purchase on Amazon starting May 30！

These tubes look very interesting. Shame you no longer have the Muzishare X7 around any more. I've been pretty impressed with Psvane's Art series 12A*7 tubes in my X7 so would have loved to see how the Horizons go in it. Are the Horizon tubes above the Art series in their product line? On their website it seems to go Classic < Art Series < Legend < Acme

Exciting to see new quality tubes coming on the market, but quality control and reliability are the key factors, not the forte of the Chinese. Only time will tell. Cheers.

I have long thought that it would be great if some manufacturers made good new tubes, as good old tubes are now becoming rare and expensive while interest in tube amps has increased

I don't know what the pricing of these PSvane Horizon EL34 tubes will be but the Sophia Electric EL34 blue glass tubes have rave reviews.

I received my pair of $1499 Western Elecectric production 300b. They sounds sigificantly better than the stock bottom level Shuguang grey plate 300b originally came with my new Line Magnetic LM-845 premium amp I got last week. I'm very anxious to get a pair of Shuguang 300b-z to compare with. I can get a pair of 300b-z for $299 so why not.

Hi Skunkie, I have a tube phono amp and I know you have talked about 6922 / EC 99CC tubes in the past on one of your videos. I believe you said that you were not a fan of the JJ 6922 tubes. I would like to know what you would suggest for my application? Thank you very much!

I was thinking of getting a backup quad of power tubes for my R8 and was considering the EL34 instead of KT88 even though I really enjoy the stock KT88 sound. I will consider these new Horizon tubes depending on the price, as checking the PSVANE listing shows their higher models being extremely expensive in my mind. Speaking of burn in, when I switched my Cayin MT-12N EL84EH for the new R8 I was shocked at how flat and dead it sounded compared to the Cayin, or even my solid state amp. But after running it for about three hours with streaming music it really opened up gave me the quality I was wanting. I've never experienced a drastic difference like that with electronics or even breaking in speakers.

If I want cheap tubes, I’d just go for some JJ Teslas. I bought some TJ Full Music tubes and one was defective right out of the box. I’ll stick with Gold Lions and the NOS as long as I can if I’m going to blow money on Chinese boutique tubes.

Cryotone, if you’re listening send some tubes to Skunkie

i saw the new psvane k150 on aliexpress last week. i hope they send those to you for your kt120 amp.

I'm anxious to find out how the new 12AX7's perform in this amp. Could they be as clean and quiet as the 5751's?

Hey Stephe, can't find any news on the internet about "horizon"

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Knowing the dB of the 2nd, 3rd, harmonics etc makes understanding the sonic signature very clear Plus, - I don’t know how difficult or not it is? but knowing the IMD is THE guide to the most grating form of distortion I’m hoping to be able to get the equipment and learn the technique to do this myself, on a DIY 845 amplifier. (Taking extreme care with the high voltages!). Steph, what would you say about how much time it would take you, how feasible it is to do each of those tests?

Stephe, didn’t you change crossover parts of your Klipsch?

By any chance are they going to make new 7591 tubes in this new horizon line?

Hi Stephe. I'm wondering if you have tried the TungSol reissue EL-34Bs. Of the OS Mullard, Reissue Mullard, Winged C, GL-KT-77, EH, EH Big Bottle 6CA7, they are my favourites. Reason: they are more dynamic, have a lower bottom end and more open top end. I have observed this in both my DIY triode connected PP, cathode biased , zero NFB EL 34 amps as well as my modifed driver Dynaco Stereo 70s.

I really don’t understand why you say you couldn’t possibly see any difference with the Audio Analyzer Suite. You talk a lot about frequency response features in your subjective review, which would definitely be represented in the FR sweep the suite can do.

A little off subject but you sort of hinted at it. What is your experience in mixing tube brands e.g. PS Vane El34 with Gold lion rectifier? Is there any reason to use all tubes from the same manufacturer?

Curious to know how the KT88s and EL34s sound in the Willsenton R8⁉️

I've tried and listened to many of psvane new production EL34 (i.e. ph, uk, c,b,...) I don't like the sound of any of them. The only modern EL34 that I like from China is old shuguang EL34-M which is an almost exact copy of Mullard xf1. Sonically it just sounds better to my ears.

What??? Show us the tubes!!!!!!