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RE: Help identifying E83CC

Posted by geir.a.kongshaug@gmail.com on October 4, 2020 at 08:30:18:
We seem to have a similar taste in tubes :-) I got a pair of Mazda 5-star triple mica chrome plate 12AX7S's and although different sounding from my Tele smooth plates would rate them at the same level. My preamp is designed for using 2 each 12AU7's per channel, the best combination I've found so far is using Heerlen made ECC186's as input tubes and Heerlen made E80CC's in the cathode follower output. The ECC186 have a very nice tone in my system :-)

Geir