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In Reply to: RE: Me want these tubes. posted by Michael Samra on June 25, 2016 at 01:59:17
You could buy those tubes via Graybar for a time in the late 40s when WE Sound System amps were sold for installs. Some WE tubes were not on the open market but these were available through pro channels. I saw them listed in the catalog.
They weren't available at the local hardware store but if you have money, you could probably find them on Canal St. or elsewhere.
Many of the most common 40s WE Studio/PA amps used 350Bs, i.e. 124, 142, 143, 118, etc. as long life alternates for 6L6.
I had a bunch of 350Bs when I was using 124s and 118s and found that I preferred GE 7581As. They were good tubes and lasted forever but I didn't find them to be anything special sonically, at least in the WE amps.
Senco and Sylvania also made 350Bs. Sencos could have been rebranded WEs. Look exactly the same.
Same with 274Bs...I liked GZ34s better.
Sold most of that stuff off for relative peanuts decades ago, thinking I was making money, but who could have known just how crazy it would get?
Joe N5KAT
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Free your mind and your ass will follow -- Parliament/Funkadelic
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Hi Joe
I hear you on the GZ34s.They have a lower voltage drop and therefore the operating points of the circuits they feed will change for the better or for the worse,depending on where the circuits are the most linear.Also,when you supply more B+ to an output and driver circuit,power increases and distortion decreases much of the time.That's good to know about the 350b..Now I won't cry too much that I don't have any. LOL..I know tubes can be circuit dependent depending on where they were used..I would love to see what WE350B tubes sold for in the 40s.I'm sure they weren't cheap for the day.
73 N8TPI
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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Yeah, true, but I am not sure the increased B+ voltage of the GZ34 tells the whole story but it is certainly a chapter in it. Lower impedance may be the chapter heading and lower voltage drop a sub heading.
Western Electric never made any bad tubes but, having used many, not all are worth the massive premium, to me at least, based on experiments I did long ago. Many WE tube prices are beyond insane, but I know folks on the other side of those transactions and there is some huge money chasing this stuff. Few can compete.
But who knows if I'd even agree with myself 30 years later? Been through a lot of research and development and wide exposure to different things since then.
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