Now This is What I Call A Tube Lover

Myles B. Astor

Myles B. Astor

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Now Mike, we can have a contest and name the total number of tubes in the system?!?!





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I'm surprised he's not in swim trunks sweating his ass off on there!
 
CPP said:
Wow,

I could see some interesting times ahead should one want to do a tube roll
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:roflmao:

Wouldn't you like field that customer's call about tracking down that crackly tube in the left channel?
 
Telefunken??? Popular and pricey, but many say they lack jump factor.
 
Have you heard an 803s? They like the other 800 series tubes do not sound like the other more commonly found an used TELE tubes. They are indeed very special.

As far as jump factor goes, these people may have been listening to a used pair sold as new. There is certainly no lack of dynamic attack in a new TELE tube. That goes for any NOS sold as NOC. They sound pretty and all but have no balls.
 
Myles: Me, no!

However the people telling me this have tube testers.

You did give me pause and jogged a recessed memory, so I went to check my notes made from a contact at the "Barn" and I was told that the 802 and 803 were "special", this after dissing the Tele ecc82/3.

So mea culpa, we are now in violent AGREEMENT. LoL
 
wisnon said:
Myles: Me, no!

However the people telling me this have tube testers.

You did give me pause and jogged a recessed memory, so I went to check my notes made from a contact at the "Barn" and I was told that the 802 and 803 were "special", this after dissing the Tele ecc82/3.

So mea culpa, we are now in violent AGREEMENT. LoL
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BTW I really am dubious about the usefulness of tube testers except for matching or noise (caveat I haven't played with the Maximatcher or amplitrex). I usually use for small signal tubes the long out of production Kaye tube tester. And with the ones I've tries, tubes that obviously had lots of hours on them and were sounding dead still measured good. So what gives?
 
Its a bit of a quagmire Myles…so you may have a good point. However, the guys I refer to have lots of spares and backups, so they really have been thru many brands and examples within the same brand and of cours they also have some NIB.
 
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