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Cost/rarity does not equal performance

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Posted by Kevin Deal on September 30, 2004 at 11:35:28

In Reply to: In my Cary preamp..... posted by claud on September 29, 2004 at 04:54:18:

"" actually a SLP 2002, the Amperex/Bugle Boy 7316s were the best. Oddly enough, the Mullard CV 4003s were almost as good, and wayyyyy cheaper. I recently bought some 7316s that were labled "HP" from SED Tube sales at vacuumtubes.com for $175/matched pair. Upscale Audio sells very select Mullard CV 4003s for much less.""

Funny thing on this forum that when someone has a really rare tube...like a Mullard 10M, or a CBS 7730...it has to be way better because it is so rare.

Not once do I see someone take a real rare tube and say it sucks. The Amperex pinched waist 6922 is without peers the worst testing 6922 outside of the Sylvania. They are most difficult to keep quiet in a preamp, but both of them work fine in a buffer position like the Ah! Njoe Tjoeb.

I noticed this when I spplied some tubes to a magazine for a comparison. When I told them what I was sending, I commented on certain ones that I was just sending them for fun, and to not have people even bother looking for them, they are so rare. Guess which ones were the best sounding. The ones you can't get.

So I think it is psychological. But people have to look at who was buying these tubes in the 60's and 70's. If a company making tubes did not make many...it may be because they weren't selling, either because they were not a competetive product, or had bad distribution and did not create sales.

It's no different than any other product. "Yugo" brand cars did not sell because they are crap. You don't see people fawning over them because they are rare. A 1958 Ferrari Testarossa is wonderful, rare, and expensive...but hardly usable as a car for most people.
They are expensive because of collector value

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