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In Reply to: RE: EL34 comparisons posted by Michael Samra on June 30, 2009 at 13:23:12
Michael,
Must be a good week for racing EL34s. I was moderately excited about the SED Flying Cs myself....well, that was until my friend sent over some NOS Matsushita 6CA7/EL34s. This tube physically looks like your usual "skinny" EL34, not the typical 6CA7. Once the music starts playing however, all bets are off. The Matsushita is in another league entirely. The best EL34 I've heard since the Phillips 6CA7s in my old CJ MV50 ( from memory of course). I'll listen to them again tomorrow to make sure it wasn't the wine.
Mick
I have noticed that also that the matsushita tubes are very nice..Another thing is,people are always saying how great the A420 dynaco cloth lead output tranformers are but I find the Japanese plastic lead machine wound transformers every bit as good and maybe better.Japan isn't early china where things were unreliable and sounded bad.
If the power supply waveform isn't pretty,neither is the sound in most cases.
Yes, when I think of Japanese vacuum tube gear, names like the original Audio Note, Shindo,( spelling?) Luxman and Air Tight come to mind just to name a few. Hardly entry level and highly regarded for sure.
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