In Reply to: RE: Here's what I found so far posted by airtime on April 18, 2014 at 16:11:18:
A tube can fail gracefully and just stop conducting. Better that than a short, by far. I have a pair of ASL Wave-8's that were playing happily one day. I heard a small, delicate "clink!" and one channel started doing exactly what you describe. The envelope had cracked, and it was obvious which tube it was because the getter was gone.You might have a set of 100-year tubes, but stats catch up to us all.
"LOL Those tubes should last a 100 years.Call me when you can."
ETA: 100 years x 365 days a year x 5 hours of operation a day is 182,500 hours. What tubes are those? Impressive life span, that.
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- Blown tubes.... - Tromatic 20:11:44 04/18/14 (0)