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In Reply to: RE: NOS = new old stock posted by baileyler on August 08, 2012 at 11:53:00
"That could apply to new production or old production tubes."
Close, but not quite. Your definition of new is spot on - but old stock means new, unused tubes no longer in production. For instance - RCA tubes can be NOS, as can many of the famous name brands we all know. But so can Ei, Tesla, and other tubes that were produced fairly recently - but are not made anymore. Even individual tubes from a given maker can be NOS if they are not in production anymore such as the 6922 or 7591XYZ Sovtek, etc.
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I call my tubes old stock because I can't tell if they are used? They would be NOS by your defintion if they were new. I am not a big fan of ANOS, lightly used, and some other ways people identify such tubes, just my preference. I understand "tests like new" by sellers better than claiming NOS, if they are honest and I assume have good testing equipment.
Steve
Edits: 08/08/12
You said better what I tried to say.
I should have written "newer" instead of "new", with the connotation of more recent but not currently produced.
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