[TK16]

I snipe at the end. Last 5 minutes is the most important imo. Having the high bid for 10 days and losing at the end is still losing.

This quad WE auction started at $269, it is down to $159 2 days 5 hours left. Early 50's square getter.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-2C51-396A...Hi-Fi-Amplifier-Vacuum-Tubes-NOS/302482836330

 

[winders]

I sent him a note as well telling him that I would not buy any tubes from him based on his practices. He barred me from bidding and called me a moron....nice touch! He is certainly on my blacklist now!

 

[ThurstonX]

OMG!!! THESE MUST BE THE BEST TUBES EVER!!! #$%! those Telefunken E188CCs... JUST LOOK AT THE PRICE!!!!!!! THESE are da bomb! yo. i've run out of steam... and CAPS!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182831247781

. oh yeah, NO GLOVES!!!

 

[Guidostrunk]

I wish I would have checked out those gloves! Maybe I wouldn't have dropped a tube during my drunken stupor if I had those puppies!

 

[Phantaminum]

One of my tubemonger socket savers isn't liking anything except the LISST pair. Thought it could be the NOS pins needed to be cleaned so I tried it with an eraser and still came up short. I have to wiggle my 6922s and 6N3 to ECC88 adapter around for several minutes to find the sweet spot to power the tube. Purchased the deoxit cleaner and a new socket saver. I'm the second owner so I'm sure they saw a few tube rolls.

Speaking of tubes:
I have around 20 hours of burn in time with the Tungsols but i'm finding that I prefer the GE 5 stars much more. Love the mid-range of the TS but the GE sounds more natural and cohesive. At times the GE brings slightly more reverb than what I prefer.

Now i'm looking at WE 396As JW online and wondering how many bags of blood I can sell for a pair.

 

[thecrow]

Sorry bro USPS still has the package in NJ. Priority Shipping my a$$.

All: found this auction on ebay. Anybody here heard these?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pair-NOS-Er...nal-boxes-WE-type-made-in-Sweden/222655586676

These are supposed to be the Holy Grail of 5670 tubes. I have never seen a pair priced reasonably enough to buy. I have said I am done buying tubes for my MJ2. well, these priced under $125 would change that. I am going to bid on these....

For those perhaps still considering the seller informs me these are NOT gold pins

 

[TK16]

From what I have read the gold pins sound better. Not that I would bid from that particular seller.

 

[thecrow]

From what I have read the gold pins sound better. Not that I would bid from that particular seller.

Yeah. Brent jesse only highlights/rates the gold pins

 

[gmahler2u]

In my experience, Brent Jesse's tubes are expensive in my opinion. But they're good tubes.

 

[TK16]

Rocking the 50/52 WE JW 396A in my dac and CBS 5670 square getters in the MJ2. These little tubes are very much changes the dac sound vs 6922 variants. So much so, I doubt I will run 6922 tubes in the dac ever again. Probably will have more 6922 tubes for sale in the near future. Right now taking care of moving.

 

[roman410]

My replacement of shorted WE JW 396A pairing very well with original survived tube. On my DAC I using right now Tung-Sol 2C51 and on my MJ2 WE JW. This combination brings best from two worlds: midrange and transparency Thung-Sol with thickness and bass to midrange oriented with exceptional detail retrieved from this frequencies JW.

Anybody here have experience with Heerlens Holand E188CC d-getters ?

 

[kolkoo]

So my favorite tubes currently are the Mullard Mitcham late 50s early 60s.
I bought a quad of Mullards from here http://www.ebay.com/itm/262287616448 suspecting that they are indeed the early version from the picture (wrinkle glass / milky ring on top ) and I got two tubes that were from the 1950 and two that were from the late 1960s. So it's a bit of a gamble. But I am currently running the 50s ones full time since I got them in August. They did not test amazingly strong on Ia but had decent Gm.
It's a bit of a gamble... but I am pondering another quad purchase
Funny thing is I have written a message a few months ago asking langrex if these tubes are from the 50s or 60s and they told me they were from the 70s, after getting them however there is no doubt they are late 50s and early 60s.

My replacement of shorted WE JW 396A pairing very well with original survived tube. On my DAC I using right now Tung-Sol 2C51 and on my MJ2 WE JW. This combination brings best from two worlds: midrange and transparency Thung-Sol with thickness and bass to midrange oriented with exceptional detail retrieved from this frequencies JW.

Anybody here have experience with Heerlens Holand E188CC d-getters ?

No..but I would love to get my hands on them Same goes for:

1) Siemens E88CC D-Getter
2) Siemens E88CC Disk Getter
3) 1955 Philips Venolanda '+' on the plate E88CCs
4) Lorenz Stuttgart E88CC - 2 and 3 mica
5) Lorenz Stuttgart PCC88 3 - mica

Edit: I've managed to procure a pair of gold pin LM Ericsson 2C51L at 150$ matched pair from Tango Tubes sweden. I have not gotten it yet and have only seen a picture so I will update you guys how it sounds compared to the steel pinned one I already have.

Edit2: I've asked Roland@Tango Tubes if he has more pairs and he said he does - not sure how many but if somebody is hyped up feel free to contact him yourselves ( just google tango tubes sweden).

 

[TK16]

My replacement of shorted WE JW 396A pairing very well with original survived tube. On my DAC I using right now Tung-Sol 2C51 and on my MJ2 WE JW. This combination brings best from two worlds: midrange and transparency Thung-Sol with thickness and bass to midrange oriented with exceptional detail retrieved from this frequencies JW.

Anybody here have experience with Heerlens Holand E188CC d-getters ?

Holland tubes are old news bro. Though I quite like the d getter 6922 and E88CC pairs I got. Think I seen a new pair of Heerlen d getter E188CC on ebay for 400 obo. Not sure if it is still available. Don't think I tried the TS WE combo yet in my dac and amp yet. These 2C51 variants do bring a lot more SQ to the table in my dac vs the regular stuff. Finding some sets quite hard to put and take off the mini adapter for my dac, wound up keeping the adapters permanently on my dac tubes. Got 5 pair of those.

 

[roman410]

$400 it is way over my budget, I scored 4 tubes for almost half the price. They have E88CC printings, with VR1 tube codes. I will compare them to my another E188CC round getters VR2 codes.

I agree with you, I have same experience with 2C51 tubes on my DAC, bigger differences in sound on variants like 6DJ8.

 

[tvnosaint]

In the dac application it's no contest. The 5670s kill the 6922s. Much closer in the lyr to me but when you factor in the cost....5670s ...hands down. I've got a box full of 6922 tubes that will likely never be used again. By me , that is