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Racerxrated
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Well, the 'New Tubes are Shit' bug has bitten again.....
My great sounding MT 100 came with TAD 6L6GC Redbase. Sounded killer! Until one redplated...I immediately shut the amp off. Pulled out my tube tester (from the early 60s lol) and all the 'new' tubes tested at 85, where 80 is minimum good, 120 is max. Pulled out a quad of Sovtek Military wafer bottoms, from the early 90s and they tested at 105. Not surprising...I've said this for years, new tubes are shit and I am glad I have a stash. The amp still works, but one of the bias points (where the tube redplated) has no reading. But, the replacement tube works fine, amps sounds great. I'll be returning this one for another, and before firing it up I'll replace those crap tubes with something out of my stash.
I don't buy new amps often, the last was a Naylor SD60 that came with the same wafer Sovteks, no issues. But the previous new amp before that one was an EVH which also had a power tube issue, a crap JJ.
My great sounding MT 100 came with TAD 6L6GC Redbase. Sounded killer! Until one redplated...I immediately shut the amp off. Pulled out my tube tester (from the early 60s lol) and all the 'new' tubes tested at 85, where 80 is minimum good, 120 is max. Pulled out a quad of Sovtek Military wafer bottoms, from the early 90s and they tested at 105. Not surprising...I've said this for years, new tubes are shit and I am glad I have a stash. The amp still works, but one of the bias points (where the tube redplated) has no reading. But, the replacement tube works fine, amps sounds great. I'll be returning this one for another, and before firing it up I'll replace those crap tubes with something out of my stash.
I don't buy new amps often, the last was a Naylor SD60 that came with the same wafer Sovteks, no issues. But the previous new amp before that one was an EVH which also had a power tube issue, a crap JJ.