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you guys are REALLY gonna hate me for this (long)

After driving around all of nothern colorado looking for (1)12ax7, I finally got lucky. I called a high-end audio shop, the guy said he had a couple "decent old tubes" lying around and to stop by. I think he liked the fact that a 21 yr old was addicted to tubes already, so after I told him what I needed, he smiled and said he had a box that would take care of me for a while... for only 20 bucks.. he kinda pressed me to trust him and buy before looking, but finally said there were 7or8 NOS RCA 12x7s ("and some other stuff), so i went for it (there were 23 tubes in there, 17 were NOS, the rest were used but had tested new. I decided to just grab 'em all. So I didn't really look at them until I got home, and I was amazed. Here's what I got:
4 nib Sylvania Gold Brand 6201's.
8 nib Rca 12ax7's (60's era)
2 nib Mullard M8162
2 nib siemens ecc81/12at7's
1 nib "national" 12at7. (made in germany, and identical to the siemens)
Those are just the new ones to. Then there were:
2 "black plate" RCA 12ax7
2 older RCA 12at7's,

and a mystery bag with 2 tubes that just had dynaco, 12ax7 and west...(germany was 98%worn off except for the ny)..

I retested all of em (just to make sure) and sure enough, all the new ones were where they should be, and all the used ones tested almost as good (except for the odd dynaco ones...they tested better than ALL of 'em). So I started rolling 'em around in my jolida, having a lot of fun, and yesterday, I stumbled across a post about how a lot of dynaco stock tubes were tele's. So I did some research and sure enough they are some real tele's. So, a couple hundred bucks worth of tubes that all work in the amps I have... now I'm really hooked on this stuff. At least I got a good fix right?


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