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In Reply to: RE: One more paperweight... (n/t) posted by Eli Duttman on November 27, 2016 at 10:44:28
When I was building my VTA-120. I did get a bad set of Gold Lion KT88's from Partsconexion. So that may have damaged this JJ GZ34. I sent them back for refund. Bought the next set of GL's from Kevin Deal at Upscale
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Perhaps you did damage that JJ 5AR4. However, all of JJ's Octal production is suspect. :> ( You could have been sold "floor sweepings".
Eli D.
Eli - I take exception to your statement of, "However, all of JJ's Octal production is suspect." Although I agree about the JJ GZ34, I am on my second set of JJ 7591's and upgraded my Dynaco ST70 from German EL34s to JJ KT77s (for the higher plate and screen grid ratings) with no problems.
I said suspect, not junk. Sadly, far too many JJ made Octal tubes are trash. IF you get good tubes, great. The lack of consistent quality is a significant issue.
I wonder if JJ's better efforts are not shipped to North America. It's pretty well established that the Jamona plant is capable of manufacturing very nice products.
Eli D.
Their tubes quality are suspect and not great in QC. The tube that I posted here about has terrible build quality. The top a bottom round plates that are touching the glass are way out of whack uneven really bad. I have never seen any other tube with build quality that bad.
I bought four JJ GZ34s that all arced in a 2A3SE amp running 250V and 50mA total including the driver. Seems like it should be safe, right? It never had a problem before or since with Sovtek 5AR4s.
Vendor said they were sale items and non-returnable. I will never buy another JJ tube on principal.
Very nice sounding!
With the SS diode tweak, Sovtek 5AR4s are fine.
Eli D.
5AR4 labeled as 5V4GA. I've used several of these and they test as 5AR4/GZ34. Are very good tubes. And last.I used this 5AR4 in my 1971 Fender Vibrolux Reverb, for four years now. Air the amp out, about 2-3 times a month. No problems.
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As comparison to mislabeled tube.
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