[mikoss]

Lol, the Dutch tubes:
PW










All others.

 

[billerb1]

Lol, the Dutch tubes:

PW





















All others.

 


+1 No further questions, Your Honor. To me (and obviously to Mike aka Mikoss) there is the Amperex Holland house sound...and then there is the Holland house sound on steroids, the Pinched Waists. The house sound is supreme musicality with a uniquely saturated and majestic midrange, like no other that I've heard. And somehow the magnificence of the midrange doesn't detract from the bass and treble...a very difficult trick to pull off. Detailed but not to the analytic degree of some of the Siemens. To me the sound couldn't be more real, more enveloping, more pulsating or more engaging. The Shootout thought the PW's lacked the ability to cause goosebumps. I personally have never been more excited listening to a pair of tubes in my life. Period. Just a matter of different people hearing and responding emotionally to different things. I get it. But I now also understand why many audiophiles rank the Pinched Waists at the very top of the food chain. They are a different breed of cat.

 

[rb2013]

+1 No further questions, Your Honor. To me (and obviously to Mike aka Mikoss) there is the Amperex Holland house sound...and then there is the Holland house sound on steroids, the Pinched Waists.

Bill and Mike doing the Holland Jig!  LOL!
 

 

[billerb1]

Bill and Mike doing the Holland Jig!  LOL!

LOL!!! Touché Comrade.
Cheers !!!

 

[rb2013]

LOL!!! Touché Comrade.
Cheers !!!

All in good fun - they are awesome tubes!

 

[m-i-c-k-e-y]

To the OP, my dog send his kisses...great, great post. 
 
I was on a searchr for a good matched pair of 6922s for my upcoming HPA.
 
So I went hunting those 70s Reflektor 6N23P....

 

[rb2013]

  To the OP, my dog send his kisses...great, great post. 
 
I was on a searchr for a good matched pair of 6922s for my upcoming HPA.
 
So I went hunting those 70s Reflektor 6N23P....

Be sure they have only one curved wire getter post.  The much more common dual dimpled plate posts were also made those years and are much more common.
 
Good luck on the hunt!

 

[mikoss]

 
Be sure they have only one curved wire getter post.  The much more common dual dimpled plate posts were also made those years and are much more common.
 
Good luck on the hunt!

What would be really great is a thread about the different Russian tubes, including their designations. I am very lost trying to decipher the tubes and the Cyrillic!

 

[rb2013]

  What would be really great is a thread about the different Russian tubes, including their designations. I am very lost trying to decipher the tubes and the Cyrillic!

It just so happens sfo1972 is working on that very project as we speak.  Kudos to him for the great service he has provided!

 

[mikoss]

 
It just so happens sfo1972 is working on that very project as we speak.  Kudos to him for the great service he has provided!

Wicked. Looking forward to that sfo1972.
 
Bill we should do a Holland/Philips thread

 

[rb2013]

  Wicked. Looking forward to that sfo1972.
 
Bill we should do a Holland/Philips thread

That would be great!  And someone do a Great Brittan Mullard/GEC thread - that would be a big help for me

 

[m-i-c-k-e-y]

Sorry for my ignorance...
 
Got any more pics for that 70s Reflektor 6N23P? Thanks in advance.

 

[rb2013]

  Sorry for my ignorance...
 
Got any more pics for that 70s Reflektor 6N23P? Thanks in advance.

Sure here you go!

 

[m-i-c-k-e-y]

Thanks for the help!! Now on to look for it.

 

[rb2013]

Good Luck!  I hope you find a garage full some where!