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May 30, 2019 at 6:29 PM Post #21,677 of 23,494
AuditoryCanvas said:
Still alive gents, just an intense workload at the moment. Can't complain, it's what pays for all the studio and headfi toys...That said, I bought 2 new synths 3 weeks ago, and haven't spent more than an hour on them....my headfi rig has been keeping me sane daily though.

Work should mellow out a touch in a few weeks, so I'll be back to catch up. Hope all is well with everyone.
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Glad you're doing OK. The work thing is eating me alive right now too. Whoever invented work should be fired.

Probably Al Gore.

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May 30, 2019 at 6:31 PM Post #21,678 of 23,494
Jun 1, 2019 at 10:33 AM Post #21,679 of 23,494
OK, so where is everybody? Oh, sure, so like it's summer and everybody is on vacation? Where's the commitment? I'm sooooooo disappointed.

$400 off these Brimars in case anyone is interested. If you sold 'em for $100/pair you'd double your money. Or if you kept them all you'd have a stash to last several lifetimes. As for me, I still don't know what a 12AT7 is, the Brimar house sound hasn't ever floated my boat, and I already have so many tubes I still can't figure out why I even look at Ebay any more (but logic will never appear at the top of my resume). :relaxed:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/BRIMAR-12A...101289&hash=item286f417b5c:g:awYAAOSwEKxb~wrf
 
Jun 1, 2019 at 10:38 AM Post #21,680 of 23,494
bcowen said:
OK, so where is everybody? Oh, sure, so like it's summer and everybody is on vacation? Where's the commitment? I'm sooooooo disappointed.

$400 off these Brimars in case anyone is interested. If you sold 'em for $100/pair you'd double your money. Or if you kept them all you'd have a stash to last several lifetimes. As for me, I still don't know what a 12AT7 is, the Brimar house sound hasn't ever floated my boat, and I already have so many tubes I still can't figure out why I even look at Ebay any more (but logic will never appear at the top of my resume). :relaxed:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/BRIMAR-12A...101289&hash=item286f417b5c:g:awYAAOSwEKxb~wrf
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Ewwww, o getters!
 
Jun 1, 2019 at 3:04 PM Post #21,681 of 23,494
TK16 said:
Ewwww, o getters!
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Picky.

Just look on the bright side. If it was BangyBang selling them the asking price would probably be $16,000 and they'd be relabeled Chinese tubes. :slight_smile:
 
Jun 1, 2019 at 3:43 PM Post #21,682 of 23,494
bcowen said:
Picky.

Just look on the bright side. If it was BangyBang selling them the asking price would probably be $16,000 and they'd be relabeled Chinese tubes. :slight_smile:
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You caught me red handed, the o getters are far better sounding than their D or square getter counterparts. Want to keep the o getters for myself. Kinda like you badmouthing GE tubes, so you can snatch em up yourself.
 
Jun 1, 2019 at 4:55 PM Post #21,683 of 23,494
TK16 said:
Kinda like you badmouthing GE tubes, so you can snatch em up yourself.
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What? Huh? Me? You must have me confused with somebody else. I would never, ever, in a million, billion, trillion years do something like that. That's just wrong.


(I just bought the pile below for the GE's...gonna throw the rest away)
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Jun 1, 2019 at 6:44 PM Post #21,684 of 23,494
bcowen said:
What? Huh? Me? You must have me confused with somebody else. I would never, ever, in a million, billion, trillion years do something like that. That's just wrong.


(I just bought the pile below for the GE's...gonna throw the rest away)
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What do you think about this seller? Fair pricing?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/BUGLE-BOY-...PAIR-TUBES-HEERLEN-HOLLAND-1960s/232046579142
https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-RCA-12...ER-BLACKPLATES-BEST-MUSEUM-TUBES/292872842666
https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-6922-E...N-MATCHED-PAIR-TUBES-1965-ROZNOV/292941629736
 
Jun 1, 2019 at 10:48 PM Post #21,688 of 23,494
TK16 said:
You think the prices are too high for common tubes?
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I like the RCA's especially. I've listened to a lot of 12AU7's over the years, and while I consider the clear top / side getter RCA's to be great sounding tubes for the money, and while I've obviously not heard every version of RCA 12AU7 ever produced, I've yet to hear any RCA chrome dome 12AU7 that was anything other than 'meh.'

But hey, if you can make up a story that a meh tube that's worth (maybe) $20 a pair is worth $250 by calling it an "American ECC802S" then why not? Hopefully someone will believe it. And hopefully that someone never listens to a pair of $25 clear tops later on that make the chrome domes sound sick. Probably not as sick as they'll be though when they realize they got a $250 hosing.

In all seriousness, I'm glad you pointed out that seller. Another one to add to the "Avoid Like The Plague" list.
 
Jun 1, 2019 at 11:05 PM Post #21,689 of 23,494
TK16 said:
You think the prices are too high for common tubes?
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I like BangyBang's even more. Not only are they way cheaper, they're also equivalents to a nonexistent tube type....a 5418. Now THAT'S special! :slight_smile:

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