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PoLiTiCs => What's on your cranium??? => Topic started by: OldiesButGoodies on November 09, 2015, 10:25:40 AM
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I guess it's fitting that someone working for an Rx firm is using pill bottles to store tubes
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I actually showed Pepe that trick. I was loaning him my Mullards to audition. I met him at the shop, and when he asked if I had the tubes, I reached into my pants pocket and he got a startled look on his face. When he saw the tubes padded in an Rx container, he smiled approvingly. I handed him the tubes and said "Careful, I hear those are habit forming".
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@Pepe,
I still have all those Amperex Bugle Boys circa 1958 ECC83's if you wanna try them out
Check out the MC1's per this link actually made in Hamburg Germany.
http://www.tube-classics.de/TC/Tubes/Valvo%20ECC83/ECC83.htm (http://www.tube-classics.de/TC/Tubes/Valvo%20ECC83/ECC83.htm)
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Did you just roll them around in the bottles? Where's the results?!
I haven't tried many different 12AX7's, got a quad of Tele's and never changed them. I have had some fun rolling 12AU7's in the pre and getting very different characteristics.
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Ian - I have a bixz dinner in Squirrel Hill tomorrow - can I pop by to borrow those 12AX7s :P?
All: STAL showed me the way of the pill bottle cotton cocoon, kudos to him for that...
The tube rolling led me to the declaring the Lowrey organ tubes as being a good fit for the Goldenears. The Telefunkens STAL donated are also pretty good. The best so far? Old Mullards, but I still need to get my hands on a pair I can own -they are expensive...
Also - this tube rolling things is a function of component synergy. If you have bright speakers (like m new Goldenears) it is best to pair them w a tube set and cables that do not emphasize treble.
Fun...
OBG
Regards
P
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Ian - I have a bixz dinner in Squirrel Hill tomorrow - can I pop by to borrow those 12AX7s :P?
OBG
Regards
P
Pepe,
How many would you like to borrow? and yes tomorrow works. Call me to arrange the time.
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The Telefunkens STAL donated are also pretty good. The best so far? Old Mullards, but I still need to get my hands on a pair I can own -they are expensive...
Did I give you Teles? I remember loaning you the Mullards from The Leak, and I gave you an RCA 12ax7a, but I don't recall Teles. That may have been someone else.
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That is right! You gave me the RCAs, and I think the Teles may have been from Carl. Ian loaned me a pair of old Amperex to try today, maybe I will go give those a quick try before going to bed... >:D
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Pepe, those Teles were from me.
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Did you just roll them around in the bottles? Where's the results?!
I haven't tried many different 12AX7's, got a quad of Tele's and never changed them. I have had some fun rolling 12AU7's in the pre and getting very different characteristics.
So far my quick off-the-cuff semi-worthless observations on 12AX7s (I caveat these by stating what we all know, the combo of equipment is what sounds this way or that, the tubes are just a link in a chain).
- The Tung-sols are decent tubes, but the gold pins do not make any difference in my system (vs std ones), so save your money and get the base version.
- The best sounding overall to me have been the Mullards, particularly if you like solid tube-like bass. They are just great, excellent imaging and soundstage, but also expensive.
- The Telefunkens sound slightly better than the Tung-Sols, wee bit better imaging.
- The Bugle Boys from Ian: still evaluating, but soundstage thus far feels flatter than the other ones. Could be that I am still dialing in the new speakers.
- The Mazda Electronique 12AX7s are excellent, I would place them above the Teles
- The Lowrey Organ tubes seem very similar to the Teles in sound, with slightly stronger bass.
- The typical RCA 12AX7 I rate lower than the Tung Sols
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- The Mazda Electronique 12AX7s are excellent, I would place them above the Teles
I never heard of these. Are they vintage or a new production?
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@STaL
http://www.audiotubes.com/12ax7.htm (http://www.audiotubes.com/12ax7.htm)
Scroll down aways and there's a little blurb about the Mazda's
@Pepe,
I meant to let you borrow some Military grade 12AX7's Sylvania 12AX7WA's), I've never listened to them but have been told they sound great. You can borrow those too if you would like.
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Cool.
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I have some RCA 12ax7 long black plates that sound very good.
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Very cool review Pepe, nice stock you have there. I'm running the E84L's in my carver 20 watt right now and loving them, but still really interested in popping in some mullards and having a listen.
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I have some RCA 12ax7 long black plates that sound very good.
I have a single RCA long plate - need to find a second one to test in stereo. :(|)
BTW - putting aside whether one likes the sound of the Goldenear speakers, one thing that is remarkable is their ability to differentiate equipment. You change tubes and it is easier to notice the change than it was with the barn doors.
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I'll check and see if I have a single.
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Did you just roll them around in the bottles? Where's the results?!
I haven't tried many different 12AX7's, got a quad of Tele's and never changed them. I have had some fun rolling 12AU7's in the pre and getting very different characteristics.
So far my quick off-the-cuff semi-worthless observations on 12AX7s (I caveat these by stating what we all know, the combo of equipment is what sounds this way or that, the tubes are just a link in a chain).
- The Tung-sols are decent tubes, but the gold pins do not make any difference in my system (vs std ones), so save your money and get the base version.
- The best sounding overall to me have been the Mullards, particularly if you like solid tube-like bass. They are just great, excellent imaging and soundstage, but also expensive.
- The Telefunkens sound slightly better than the Tung-Sols, wee bit better imaging.
- The Bugle Boys from Ian: still evaluating, but soundstage thus far feels flatter than the other ones. Could be that I am still dialing in the new speakers.
- The Mazda Electronique 12AX7s are excellent, I would place them above the Teles
- The Lowrey Organ tubes seem very similar to the Teles in sound, with slightly stronger bass.
- The typical RCA 12AX7 I rate lower than the Tung Sols
WTF Pepe! Your not rolling gold pin Russian Tungsols are you! With Mazdas I thought for sure you'd be talking about black plates from the 50s. Lowrey did not make tubes by the way, just rebranded. Bite your tongue if talking about RCA blackplates (horseshoe getter a must). My favorite is a real darkhorse being talked up in other circles. The CBS 7729:
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x317/autolocate/CBS7729tube2-1.jpg)
From the early 60s they go for about $175 each or so, but the non gold pin version is the CBS 12AX7A with the same halo getter and structure. Awfully nice tube for peanuts.
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$175 each is peanuts?
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$175 each is peanuts?
$20. For cbs 12ax7a. A low testing pair of 7729 currently up for $50' but very low.
Using two myself and prefer even to the Genalex.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-GENALEX-B759-12AX7-PRE-AMP-PREAMP-TUBE-BOX-TESTS-STRONG-/121776919255?hash=item1c5a7852d7:g:kC0AAOSwFnFWDuTb (http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-GENALEX-B759-12AX7-PRE-AMP-PREAMP-TUBE-BOX-TESTS-STRONG-/121776919255?hash=item1c5a7852d7:g:kC0AAOSwFnFWDuTb)
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Sorry, I just reread your post. I misunderstood.