Ray Tubes EL34 RESERVE Vacuum Tube

Name: Ray Tubes EL34 RESERVE Vacuum Tube
Brand: Ray Tubes
SKU: EL34/RES
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EL34 RESERVE

The Ray Tubes EL34 RESERVE Vacuum Tube enhances your amplifier with exceptional improvements in clarity, texture, and detail, thanks to meticulous, engineer-led selection. Designed to unlock your ampʼs hidden potential, these tubes transform its output far beyond the original sound profile, making them a substantial
upgrade from standard NOS tubes. Each tube undergoes meticulous selection and quality checks, featuring gold pins for enhanced conductivity and durability, making it the supreme upgrade for high-fidelity applications.

Ray Tubes is revitalizing the vacuum tube market with hand-selected, rigorously-tested tubes, backed by a 1-year warranty that underscores the quality and reliability of their products.

Hand-selected and tested
Gold pins for corrosion resistance and excellent conduction
A substantial upgrade from standard NOS tubes
Magic Coating: Monocrystalline carbon coating enhances sound by cooling, blocking noise, and allowing for quicker electron transmission
Low noise and microphonics
Matched quad (4 tubes) or pair (2 tubes) or single tube (1 tube)
Only 5% of the tubes commissioned for production meet our standards for gain and conductance matching
12-month warranty against manufacturing defects

RESERVE COLLECTION

The Best of the Best

The RESERVE Collection artfully designed and carefully manufactured solely for hifi audiophile devices. Vocals are smooth and lifelike with compelling delivery with superior decay, offering a realistic and immediate presence. The treble is crisp but carefully balanced to avoid harshness. The low-end is full and commanding. The result is a sound that is hard to beat.

Engineered Exclusively for Audiophile Systems

Explicitly engineered for audiophile applications, the RESERVE Collection of vacuum tubes are crafted through a unique process that targets the specific needs of music lovers. Every aspect of their design and manufacture is aimed at enhancing the listening experience in high-fidelity systems, with a focus on critical sound characteristics such as vocal realism, texture, and extended bass.

Magic Coating

Some things are better left unseen. You can’t see inside the RESERVE tube because it’s coated with something called monocrystalline carbon. This layer keeps the electrons on their toes, cools things down, and blocks out noise. If you’re into engineering, you might find the science fascinating. For the rest of us, it’s basically magic. The coating is delicate and tough to apply, which complicates production. That’s why we only use it for our RESERVE tubes—and why it costs more. When all’s said and done, it just means one thing — the sound is amazing.

Ensuring Excellence

Every vacuum tube in the RESERVE Collection is subjected to a stringent quality assurance process. An audio engineer personally assesses each vacuum tube against a detailed checklist that includes sound profile, dynamics, microphonics, gain, conductance, and noise levels, along with overall performance. This ensures not only that the vacuum tubes align with audiophile expectations for sound quality, but also that they meet our rigorous standards for reliability and consistency.

Gold Pins

Gold pins not only add a touch of elegance but also serve a significant purpose. Gold's superior conductivity enhances signal transmission for crystal-clear sound, while its resistance to oxidation ensures long-term performance and durability.

Silkscreened Logos

Even the logos deserve a special mention. Silk-screen-printed onto the tubes, they demonstrate Ray Tubes’ commitment to superior craftsmanship down to the smallest detail. This time-honoured printing technique is not only aesthetically pleasing but also durable, ensuring the design work remains vibrant and intact over time.

12-Month Warranty

We trust our product. Ray Tubes offers a 12-month warranty — a rarity in the world of vacuum tubes. This warranty covers any manufacturing defects.

RAY TUBES QUALITY CONTROL

Step 1 – Extensive Burn-In

Each tube undergoes a 24-hour burn-in period to stabilize components and identify early signs that might lead to premature failures later on.

Step 2 – Comprehensive Parameter Testing

Tubes are tested against more than a dozen critical parameters like amplification factor and internal resistance.

Step 3 – Individual Measurement Recording

Measurements are logged under each set's unique serial number for traceability.

Step 4 – Current Draw Analysis

Industrial-grade instruments measures current draw to ensure fully-accurate matching. This guarantees that each channel outputs similar sound quality and volume, preventing any imbalance.

Step 5 – Microphonics Testing

Tubes are subjected to physical stressors to reveal any buzzing or defects. This ensures that the tube maintains low noise level even in challenging environments.

Step 6 – Functional Testing

Tubes are installed in amplifiers to assess real-world performance. Because there are many nuances of the final sound that cannot be assessed through objective measurements, our sound engineers listen to the tubes on purpose-built equipment to guarantee that they meet our quality benchmarks.

Step 7 – Expert Listening Sessions

Audio specialists randomly select certain tubes that have passed all previous tests and evaluate their sound quality.

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