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In Reply to: How good is the sound of 6BM8 based tube amps? posted by Raver on December 11, 2003 at 23:42:52:
The sonics of the tube (ecl82/6bm8 and it's slightly more powerful cousin ecl86/6gw8) is considered to be dense and focused. The triode section is similar to a 12ax7 and the pentode section is similar to a 6v6. Both tubes in one bottle allowed compact amps for TV's and portable record players, which didn't have much in the way of transformers or speakers, thus the bad rap. Properly implemented it is an excellent tube choice, as witness Raver's Heathkit AA-32, but the tube itself is not the qualifing factor. Higher filament voltage tubes in the same eclxx family are also popular. The 6bm8 is still in production, the 6gw8 is not, thus the current preference for 6bm8.
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