16 Jan
2004
16 Jan
'04
7:03 a.m.
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 09:23, Stan Barr wrote:
I regularly abuse my tube amp that way - but I'm a
guitarist and I'm
*supposed* to do that :-) You can't beat the smell of a hot ouput
transformer and the sight of four 6L6s glowing red-hot!
Yup, I'm with you on that one. EL34s for me though!
Anyway the Russians, Chinese and Indians still make
the tubes, and in
fact have been increasing production lately to meet demand.
There are a couple of Russian companies making valves. IIRC Sovtek
bought the entire Mullard plant and shipped it from the UK to Russia, so
they really are *real* EL34s. I wish they'd call them ECC83s instead of
12AX7s, though ;-)
Gordon.