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Hi Peter,

>The tube is backlit and when there´s no second one I think it´s cosmetics
>only, because it´s a two channel preamp (how should they do that with only
>one tube?)...

there are lots of tubes with a double content! For example ECC 83 is a
double triode tube, technically exact the same as two single tubes would be.

Apart from that I am sure that in most of the newer tube studio equipment
it´s in fact only cosmetics, even if the tubes really work.
To make a tube circuit sound really good, you have to apply really good and
expensive components and know exactly how they work.
In most cases the tubes only add a kind of distortion, IMO.
The same with many affordable tube+transistor guitar amps. Only somehow
expensive components sound really good (but then they DO!)

Tobias