[bcowen]

FTFY…[Reg. TM; © bcowen: 2021].

 

[Galapac]

And after you stay at it long enough, you end up with a thousand. Roughly. And then one day you get some new tubes in the mail and you're all excited and stuff only to find that you already had 2 pairs of the exact same ones in the stash...

or worse you'll order tubes you have no use for because you ordered the wrong type or with the hope that you WILL USE them....someday.

 

[bcowen]

or worse you'll order tubes you have no use for because you ordered the wrong type or with the hope that you WILL USE them....someday.

LOL! I'm still working on my time machine, but soon I'll be able to go into the future and see what tubes I'm using then. Just have to be careful not to go too far forward....it would kinda suck if I'm no longer around when I get there.

 

[DougD]

LOL! I'm still working on my time machine, but soon I'll be able to go into the future and see what tubes I'm using then. Just have to be careful not to go too far forward....it would kinda suck if I'm no longer around when I get there.

Seems reminiscent of a common story. Scrooge McTube visits the future to see how his famed tube collection has been dispersed by his family after his demise, finds kids at the local thrift shop using them for target practice on the back lot. Returns to his own time scared poopless, repents, and writes a proper will.

 

[bcowen]

Seems reminiscent of a common story. Scrooge McTube visits the future to see how his famed tube collection has been dispersed by his family after his demise, finds kids at the local thrift shop using them for target practice on the back lot. Returns to his own time scared poopless, repents, and writes a proper will.

 

[jonathan c]

LOL! I'm still working on my time machine, but soon I'll be able to go into the future and see what tubes I'm using then. Just have to be careful not to go too far forward....it would kinda suck if I'm no longer around when I get there.

Give your own eulogy?… “We come here to praise him, to access his Foton inventory…”…

 

[gibosi]

Well, unless your amp can run 25 volt tubes, this is likely not of much interest. This is a Ken Rad 1633, or more precisely, a 25SN7. I have been told that aircraft typically used two 12.6 volt batteries, providing about 25.2 volts, thus the need for a tube such as the 25SN7.

And yes, Ken Rad 6SN7, 12SN7 and 25SN7, all of the same vintage, sound the same.

As you might guess these are pretty rare, but given that hardly anyone can use them, they are often cheap. I paid $6.99 for this one.

 

[Thaddy]

Black glass tubes look so cool, these Tung-Sol 6SL7's just arrived today...

 

[Ranger Ron]

Black glass tubes look so cool, these Tung-Sol 6SL7's just arrived today...

Very nice. Black glass tends to offer a little more mystique to things.

 

[Odin412]

Very nice. Black glass tends to offer a little more mystique to things.

Absolutely! Although it sometimes makes the lovely tube glow harder to see

 

[ColSaulTigh]

Mail call!

First up - NOS MELZ 1578 Dominos!

Next up - Tung Sol 6F8G's (Not sure of the year)

It's going to be a busy weekend!

 

[musicman59]

Those TS 6F8G BG/RP are my favorite driver tubes even over the TS 6SN7 BG/RP.

 

[KonanAtlante]

Tung Sol vt-99 NAVY

burnin (almost 100) after 50+ hours they began to honor their fame, for now I can only say that it is among my favorites, I will conclude with 200 hours)

 

[Isaacc7]

or worse you'll order tubes you have no use for because you ordered the wrong type or with the hope that you WILL USE them....someday.

Heh, I resemble that remark. I got some cvc1675 (n43) tubes by mistake thinking they were n34. 4v tubes... oh well. Then when I was ordering an external power supply from @Deyan to use 12 volt tubes on my amp he pointed out that for a little more money he could make it a variable supply. So I might end up using them after all!

 

[belgiangenius]

Some background: I have a Schiit Freya+ that takes 6SN7 tubes. I have many different flavours of NOS tubes. My favourites are Raytheon VT231. I've tried many new manufacture tubes over the years and was never impressed with any of them. I had tried some PSVANE tubes (12AU7, 12AT7) in different gear over the years and I always thought they sounded like donkey ass.

Then, someone convinced me to try some Psvane CV181-TII in my Schiit Freya+. I was not optimistic.

I broke them in for a month before really listening to them.

HOT DAMN. These tubes are good. They're better than any new manufacture tube I've tried and they hold their own against the best NOS tubes I've heard.

I'm shocked. I don't think I've ever been fond of anything that was made in China before.