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In Reply to: RE: Useless NOS tubes posted by SETdude on February 27, 2014 at 11:12:48
Do you remember times when nobody cared about Russian 6H30 or 6N23P types? that is until somebody at Little Dot decided to start using them...
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BAT is the company that brought the 6H30/6N30 to audio applications; Little Dot had nothing to do with that. And I'm sure folks were also subbing 6N23P in for 6922 in their BAT (and other maker) amps long before Little Dot, too. Little Dot probably affected demand for these tube types on the lower end, but probably not much at all the high-end, where the 6H30DR has long been way expensive and hard to source, and a DR tube in a LD headphone amp is way overkill anyways.
Correct - my point was that tubes come out of relative obscurity once they start being used in more common gear, and their prices start to climb up.
Little Dot, Shiit(!) and other low(er) end manufacturers started using 6n1p and 6n6p and their variants and suddenly we see "rare NOS" specimens with all kinds of "OTK" stamps of various colors on them.
I remember talking to one very well known tube amp designer not that long ago and he didn't know what 6n6p tube was...
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