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In Reply to: RE: Tube identification via code posted by tubular.well on June 25, 2020 at 05:10:41
Because:
A) I want to learn
B) Because even if they aren't original they sound fantastic and it would be good to have a back up set of tubes at lower cost
Warranty? Who provides a warranty on 40 year old tubes? There are obviously some online sellers that are better than others but its kind of a crap shoot.
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Warranty is offered by several seller for new production tubes.
EL84 is new production both from slovakia and russia. There is no
need to use old tubes that has no known history and might even
be defunct or substandard.
The amp was voiced with Mullards by the maker....I only want to hear what he heard.
"Because even if they aren't original they sound fantastic and it would be good to have a back up set of tubes at lower cost"
It's funny you say that. Back in the day when I began exploring tube audio the Ei and Tesla varieties were dismissed as being inferior to Mullard, Amperex, Sylvania, GE and not worthy the time. Though still available the prices for these out of production tubes were going up. As they got more expensive and more importantly harder to find suddenly Eastern European tubes from the recently opened up communist block were all the rage and en vogue.
It sucks to get old. It really sucks to get old and bitter.
Even the yugo tubes are getting pricey!
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