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please,I would like information about this tube.
Is a this a Svetlana EL34 tube of the type "Flying C " or " Winged C ", which has been selected, and if yes on which criteria?
Is there a website which could inform me?Is it currently the best EL34 tube on the market ?
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The current Mullard are a different creature from the current SED "Flying C". Both are damn good tubes, with my preference being the "Flying C" - but NOT by a whole lot. The Mullard need a good 40 hours playing time for initial harshness to dissipate, then they are pretty damn sweet. Overall, from top to bottom, the "Flying C" seem to present more inner detail/micro-dynamics. I doubt you'd be disappointed with either!
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I take note of your opinion,many thanks for your response.
The Mullards sound very good, They look like Sovteks and are made in the same factories but they sound much better than regular Sovtek or EH tubes.
So it confirms that the Mullard reissue is not in connection with audio tubes SED.
You could probably say they are Sovteks but they are made to Mullard specifications, EH tubes are also Sovteks. Either way they are a different tube but made in the same factories for the same company who now owns the Mullard name.
Precisely, I wondered whether the Mullard tubes were not obtained by a drastic and selective grading from EH or Sovtek tubes.It is not the case, according to your explanations!
It is interesting to know. Thank you.
Best current production are SED =C= (atleast for high-end) or Svetlana nos =C= from a few years ago. I'ld be very surprised if the Mullard reissues beat them, otherwise we would have heard atleast something about them (apart from their massive availability on ebay)...
If it's new, and sez 'Svetlana', it's a New Sensor product, and has nothing to do with Svetlana Electron Devices (SED) of St. Petersburg.This don't mean it ain't good; I use the Tung-Sol 6V6 (another New Sensor product from some unnamed Russian manufacturer; Novisibursk, I darkly suspect) in my commercial amp as the best of this type ever produced.
At the cost of a quartet of tubes, my man, sometimes you just gots to buy and listen. It's, under the circumstances, a cheap education; I would be surprised if they were Just Awful.
Yerz,
Don't know why I was thinking 'Svetlana', if anything.The Mullards are New Sensor, dunno who makes them; Mike has about four or five factories working for him over there, Reflektor, Novisibursk, Ulyanov, not SED though. Since he swiped their name, they're probably a little irritated with him.
Maybe McShane or somebody knowledgeable can tell us if these reissues are actually built like the old stock, or if he's just using the names, or what. I can tell you that the Tung-Sol 6V6 is reliably the best 6V6 type I've seen, though I don't know if it's built like the old ones.
Aloha,
Ok,thank you for these explanations.
About the caps, I am sorry, please excuse me.
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