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We were talking on the phone and KT66 smoked bottle tubes came up when she told me she saw a whole box of smoked bottle tubes in grandma's garage this winter when she was home from Florida.She came across them when she looking for her tennis racket and an old teapot she put away.
I must have put these tubes in there back in the 90s because I pulled them out of Heath W5Ms and Dynaco MK3s.None were broken and I even have a couple RCA black plates in there and EL34s. The garage is heated so none cracked so now I can test them and put them in boxes.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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If those are quiet and test high... what a find! I just gave up on finding any good ones. Even those $500 NOS matched pairs on EBay are a big risk. I use GE 7581A for most KT-66 amps these days. And they are getting ridiculously $$$. Esp those brown-tan based ones.
Steve
I have a ton the MOV KT66s already.These are just extras I forgot I had.They all test good and there a few matched pair.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Could have a 1962 Marshall Bluesbreaker amp to restore, this summer. Would love to revert the circuit to the one used by EC for the Beano album recordings.
8^)
Steve
what tube does it use now?
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Early Bluesbreaker amps with OEM KT-66 and Fane alnico speakers.
Still looking.
Aren't we all? :-)
I've always been partial to playing Fender guitars, through Fender amps. But, on the non-Fender side, nothing beats a nice Les Paul through a (dimed) vintage Blues Breaker.
One day I'm going to short circuit and rent (apparently a sizable truck) and take all your toys.
No really, I'm glad it was YOU that stashed those tubes. I know that YOU will use them and enjoy them. I just wish you could have known in the 70's and 80's to start your stashing.
I remember in the early 70's people were literally throwing out tube stereos. Please don't make me retell my pile of tube stereos at the curb story again!!!
Great find and enjoy. Just curious but do you have enough for a quad set of most of those or are they just one of these and those?
and it'd be years before he might even notice!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure
Edits: 02/19/17
nice. hell of a find.
Danny
I actually have a ton of these tubes in NOS/NIB and used.I forgot all about these.Ever since the Genelex reissue KT66 came to be,it seems everyone is parking their old tubes because the new ones sound identical and they are better in that bases don't come loose where you have to epoxy them.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Mike, that's one hell of a testament to how the new stuff is. Maybe I should pay up sometime and try the Gold Lion offerings. Are the small signal tubes further behind the power ones?
I gave away a lot of stuff back when that I almost wish that I had back. Nothing like that awesome box that you got back but it almost hurts thinking back. Tubes and a lot of carts that were cheap at the time that aren't anymore.
I still prefer the vintage small signal tubes but the new ones have closed the gap dramatically.The Tele smooth plates and the Amperex D getter 12AX7s along with the RCA black plates are still my favorite small tubes.The 12AX7 LPS is one hell of a tube tho.Like capacitor types,mixing vintage and new production tubes really helps a lot.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
I have a set of Gold Lion KT66's and KT88's. I OBVIOUSLY don't have what Mike has to compare. But I find both GL's to be excellent tubes and do every thing an output tube should do very well.
Truth be told the GL B759 (12AX7) is just as good, if not better than my RCA long black plates. Don't tell anyone but I like the GL over the RCA.
I'm also using the GL 6922 in my CJ . Sounds excellent as well as being quite rugged. My CJ was eating 6922s at a rate of about every 6-8 months. The GL 6922 has been hanging in there well past 18 months. AND still sounds good.
I also have a GL GZ37 good and again rugged.
OK I'll keep a lid on it.
I like the current GL KT-88s as much as any power tube I am familiar with.
Ditto
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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