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In Reply to: RE: Old stock Tungsol 6550s posted by highfell on September 04, 2014 at 05:49:33
The new production TungSol 6550 are some of the best I've heard! If those are too expensive, it would'nt be worth it IMO!
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I second the motion on the new production New Sensor Tung-Sol 6550 tubes. There is really little information on the net about them, what I love about them is their ability to convey realistic "Decay" through my amplifiers (I have used them in VTL MB-450 and MB-300 with Signature transformers). I didn't use them long, just a few hours, and have not tried them in my Wotans, which still have the original SED Svetlana Winged C tubes.
Although all the SED 6550 in my MB-450, MB-300, and in the Wotans tested quite high, I do not get the sense of decay through them that I do with the Tung-Sol 6550. Perhaps that is because the SED are older, and have some wear in them,and this is why some people advocate replacing tubes so early despite the fact that they have much usable life remaining. All I know is that in the future, I'm not going for anything else besides the New Sensor Tung-Sol 6550. Price is a concern, I don't want to pay for the Gold Lion name, nor the SED name either, since the SED are essentially NOS now as production of them is OVER and the most recent ones were of spotty quality anyway...
I agree. There are some very good current production 6550's. Do a search here and you will find quite a few posts about gassy NOS 6550's.
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