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In Reply to: RE: Here is a gentleman that did an EL34 shootout and I agree with most of it. posted by Nunki on September 13, 2016 at 07:06:53:
"if you want my opinion save money by going for vintage and enjoy thousands of hours reliable performance."I agree on the smaller tubes..My favorite 12AX7s are the Telefunken Smoothies,the Amperex DD getters,and the Mullard 10M,not in any particular order.
On the output tubes,New Sensor has done a phenomenal job in recreating the originals and even sonically besting the originals in some areas.I have my original Genelex RI KT66s I got from Jim McShane in 2008 and I use the hell out of them and 90% of the getter flashing is still on the tubes.
You can buy four quads of reissues for the price of one Quad of NOS/NIB clear glass GECs and I guarantee you they would not out last four quads of reissues or even two quads.I have never had the base come loose on the Reissue KT66 but I have on my NOS/NIB KT66 smoke bottles and they did this from sitting all these years.I know what you mean when you say that some of the new tubes are priced higher than then their vintage cousins but we are talking the EAT and the KR tubes as well as other exotics.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Edits: 09/18/16
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