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Mar 20, 2015 at 2:08 PM Post #33,151 of 42,298
badas said:
Tony has. Price good. Selection not great.

They basically have a Russian tube and a Philips. Philips is a rebadged Sylvania.
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That's a shame. People recommend them for the Brimar 5Z4GY so I was looking to get other tubes along with it, in particular one of the original Sylvania variants.
 
Mar 20, 2015 at 2:14 PM Post #33,152 of 42,298
fatsosixsixsix said:
That's a shame. People recommend them for the Brimar 5Z4GY so I was looking to get other tubes along with it, in particular one of the original Sylvania variants.
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Yeah. We thought the same thing. Tony thought they might be good for Drivers. Got a set of each in.

I tried them for power tubes. 6080's. Tried a set of Mullard and Brimar (which turned out to be a rebadged Sylvania). Both sets were nice sounding but noisy. Tried a long burn in but there was no improvement.
 
Mar 20, 2015 at 3:30 PM Post #33,154 of 42,298
Guess I'll have to check out Ebay then, knew it was too good finding a UK tube supplier so I could avoid the import tax
 
Mar 20, 2015 at 3:42 PM Post #33,155 of 42,298
fatsosixsixsix said:
Guess I'll have to check out Ebay then, knew it was too good finding a UK tube supplier so I could avoid the import tax
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If you do ever find a UK supplier that is siting on nice UK based tubes please let us know. Things like the Osram or GEC 6AS7G's for example.
 
Mar 20, 2015 at 4:35 PM Post #33,156 of 42,298
badas said:
If you do ever find a UK supplier that is siting on nice UK based tubes please let us know. Things like the Osram or GEC 6AS7G's for example.
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I am going back home in December for a few weeks and will be dropping in on one guy I know has stock of all sorts of tubes. Trouble will be getting him to part with some of them. Last time I was there he told me he had millions in Euro of NOS tubes. Don't know about that but I did walk around the underground warehouse, I was stunned at the stock. 
 
Its his retirement fund.....
 
Mar 20, 2015 at 4:37 PM Post #33,157 of 42,298
Selling my LCD-X's Vegan, VGC boxed etc - PM me if anyone is interested.
 
Mar 20, 2015 at 4:54 PM Post #33,158 of 42,298
isquirrel said:
I am going back home in December for a few weeks and will be dropping in on one guy I know has stock of all sorts of tubes. Trouble will be getting him to part with some of them. Last time I was there he told me he had millions in Euro of NOS tubes. Don't know about that but I did walk around the underground warehouse, I was stunned at the stock. 

Its his retirement fund.....
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Daaaaamn.
 
Mar 20, 2015 at 8:45 PM Post #33,159 of 42,298

kimakaze said:
 
porteroso said:
  By the way, on the note of adapters... If anyone is going to ask Glenn to make some adapters for the WA6, we might as well get him to make several pairs at the same time. Especially if he will make a few pairs of 6DE7 -> 6F8G adapters, which will save us all a set of adapters. Otherwise, we need 6DE7 -> 6SN7 -> 6F8G, which is 2 sets of adapters. That would be most beneficial, to just have 1 set. So Joseph, let me know if you're interested in the same thing. It would save Glenn some effort and time if he just had to make these things once. I would be willing to bet too, that he could make 10 pairs, and sell them all within a month, if people in this thread knew about it.
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Have you contacted Glenn about making the adapters?  If so, I will drop him a PM to make me a set of 6DE7 -> 6F8G and a set of 6DE7 -> 6SN7 adapters.  Glenn made me a couple of 596 adapters last fall.
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Joseph is handling the communication with Glenn. I let him know you also want this, but from now on, pm him that is probably the best thing to do.
 
Mar 22, 2015 at 12:41 PM Post #33,160 of 42,298
Hi,
 
New here and this is truly a long thread! Anyhow, I am planning to buy a WA5 and am wondering which current production 300B works best for WA5. My local dealer has EML and Psvane WE300B replica. I am thinking about Elrog also. How would you rate them?
 
Also, if I am on a tight budget, should I spend money on tube rolling or the caps upgrades (maxxed)? Thanks a lot.
 
 
WYAN
 
Mar 22, 2015 at 1:43 PM Post #33,161 of 42,298
wyan said:
  Hi,
 
New here and this is truly a long thread! Anyhow, I am planning to buy a WA5 and am wondering which current production 300B works best for WA5. My local dealer has EML and Psvane WE300B replica. I am thinking about Elrog also. How would you rate them?
 
Also, if I am on a tight budget, should I spend money on tube rolling or the caps upgrades (maxxed)? Thanks a lot.
 
 
WYAN
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Caps. You can always get better tubes later, but can't update the parts on a WA5 later.
 
Mar 22, 2015 at 4:27 PM Post #33,162 of 42,298
wyan said:
  Hi,
 
New here and this is truly a long thread! Anyhow, I am planning to buy a WA5 and am wondering which current production 300B works best for WA5. My local dealer has EML and Psvane WE300B replica. I am thinking about Elrog also. How would you rate them?
 
Also, if I am on a tight budget, should I spend money on tube rolling or the caps upgrades (maxxed)? Thanks a lot.
 
 
WYAN
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100% agree with Stereolab, always get your hard ware at the best level you can as you cannot easily or economically upgrade it later.
 
BTW Tube Rolling Addiction comes free of charge with Woo amps, so you are set there 
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Mar 22, 2015 at 9:36 PM Post #33,163 of 42,298
Has someone got a procedure for cleaning dirty pins they can give me? What is the best way?
 
Also, Curiosity. I know what JAN means however what does CRC stand for?
 
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