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In Reply to: RE: England Brimar tubes posted by Camrahnbay on May 02, 2010 at 12:37:36
I believe the tubes are of high quality build & sonically. Brimar 13D5 is best 12AU7 I heard. Brimar CV4004 is top rated 12AX7 & as good as Mullard 1950s 12AX7 long plate with slightly more neutral sonics. The Mullard long plate is very musical as well.
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I agree with Neff on the 13D5. Great tube!
I've run Brimar 6V6GT (CV511) tubes for a long time. They work very well in guitar amps. Brimar makes a lot of mil spec tubes. Perhaps, part of their history is involved with supplying valves to the British Armed Forces?
May be some confusion here . Just about every manufacturer made 'mil spec' tubes . These so called 'mil spec' types are actually ruggedised meaning they were designed to function in harsh environments . Any ruggedised valves (apart from the old CV1/2/3 types used as proximity fuses in WW2 shells) will typically have CV4xxx codes such as CV4079 , CV4004 , CV4003 , CV4024 etc . Brimar CV511 for instance is just a 6V6GT with low loss micanol base . Nothing 'mil-spec' about it at all apart from it would have been used in government owned equipment , not necessarily for the armed forces
Al
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