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You wrote:
>
>Do yourself a favor, and forget new tubes. Most modern Chinese and
>Russian tubes are *junk*. I just replaced a blown vintage Mullard
>EL34 in my stereo with a Groove Tubes EL34. The difference in
>manufacturing quality and sonics shocked me. The GT (a Chinese EL34)
>glows cherry red at the limits of its capabilities in this amp, while
>the 35 year old Mullards show no color at all, except for a tiny bit
>of gas in one.
>
>So, retube with good quality NOS (new old stock) vintage tubes. Try
>Steve at Angela Instruments (www.angela.com), an excellent
>straightforward guy. His web site has prices and descriptions for a
>wide variety of NOS tubes.
The new Svetlana EL-34s are excellent. Much better then the old Sovtek's
or anything Chinese, and I like them better then the East German tubes I've
jused. In fact, they are in the same sonic ballpark as my old Mullards.
Longevity remains a question since I've only been using them a couple of
months, but so far so good.
Best,
Kevin