Current EL34/6CA7 reliability.

[harddriver]

Obligatory "fuck you" for being so goddamned cool, and all. Thank you, drive through...ungh. JELLY

HA.....I will accept that obligatory FU.....I didn't know much about tubes at the time, my amp was running GE6550's. I bought them from a tech guy when I lived in Ohio that said they were the ultimate Marshall tube. Hell, I slapped them in the amp and it wasn't even biased I don't think, they ran cold and it still sounded great. I pulled them out around 2003 when I started using the amp again and went back to 6550's. Heck the quad was still like new, didn't show any signs of heat on the silkscreeing. I had the original boxes and individual tube test sheets, I sold them for more that I paid in 1989. I don't even remember what I paid for them.

 

[Nigel]

HA.....I will accept that obligatory FU.....I didn't know much about tubes at the time, my amp was running GE6550's. I bought them from a tech guy when I lived in Ohio that said they were the ultimate Marshall tube. Hell, I slapped them in the amp and it wasn't even biased I don't think, they ran cold and it still sounded great. I pulled them out around 2003 when I started using the amp again and went back to 6550's. Heck the quad was still like new, didn't show any signs of heat on the silkscreeing. I had the original boxes and individual tube test sheets, I sold them for more that I paid in 1989. I don't even remember what I paid for them.

Bob Gjika voices his amps with them and uses the JJ KT77 that are based off of them, as Bob of Eurotubes sacrificed a pair of the originals to make the JJ version.

Probably why Peter D uses them and I love them so much. Everything I love about 6L6 and EL34 in one tube.

 

[tlp1234]

I'll be hunting spare KT88's for my Wizard MCII KT150 when it finally gets here.