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Old March 30th, 2009, 01:37 PM   #17 (permalink)
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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.
Bottom line - whatever works.

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i've got a pretty good stash of NOS ... my amp tech (a tube purist — won't work on solid-state) finds 'em at ham radio shows and sells 'em to me cheap. i'll be rolling as soon as i get out from under this band demo and get some breathing room.
Sweet, that's the way to do it - a buddy of mine once found a nice stash of Telefunken 12AX7's (!!!) in an old medical unit. He won't let 'em go for anything, the bastamidge.

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