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Old March 29th, 2009, 11:27 AM   #13 (permalink)
Dan German
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Originally Posted by mudbean View Post
My tube guys tell me the Mullards you see online are mostly fakes these days, unfortunately.

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Originally Posted by jefrs View Post
Rule-of-thumb - Mullards only ever shipped in Mullard boxes, even military ones. So if they're in white boxes then they were probably rejects and many of their rejects got rebadged as other makes.
That said, I recently bought a "NOS Mullard" 12AT7. It came in the aforementioned white box, and the tube itself is labeled "Mullard/made in Great Britain" (yeah, I know you can screen anything you want on a tube.) Whatever it is, it's better than my EH or UOS GE 12AT7. Wasn't particularly pricey, either. I'd buy another.
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