Slade01
1000+ Head-Fier
I like the National Unions as much as I like the Sylvanias, got that tube vibe I like going for them. Not over clinical, just enough details in the mids, everything else is just bliss. .
I actually like the sharpie a lot. First of all it gives you an idea how the tube tests. I don't like tubes that come with no measurements. Secondly, it can be removed by alcohol with easy. I always clean incoming tubes with iso alcohol, especially on the pins. So after I clean the pins with alcohol, I sometimes remove the sharpie marks. But in most cases I just leave the measurements there, they normally do not bother me, unless someone's writing is really ugly...LOL
As long as the sharpie doesn't cover any of the vulnerable silkscreen, I'm just fine.
Thanks...i didnt realize the marker can be removed by alcohol easily. I get pretty pissed when i see it done at all, it didn't even dawn on me to try to remove it . To me it is so akin to writing some details (e.g. "Great Condition") in a big fat sharpie on a Gibson or a Martin guitar before lets say selling it someone. I guess in some weird way, I find it just slightly disrespectful to the to the instrument.
Yeah in retrospect, its not all that bad. For the price i paid for this one, I could live it with it the writing on it. But write it on some higher end/highly coveted $$$ tube? Hell to the no.