Im sure this has been beaten to death but I guess my search skills are poor. Point me in the right direction if so...My brand new Satch album Shockwave Supernova has a lot of pops and clicks. Compared to my old copy of JT's greatest hits which is almost dead silent between tracks its really...
Nice! Great value. After hearing about the Fireflies and other inexpensive geetars I decided to try and finbd the cheapest one I could- enter the Grote. $56 to my door. It needed some set up TLC and a bit more to make it really enjoyabvle but the finish , like your firefly was great. The 'bones"...
Perhaps- its as close as we are going to get but then again all tubes are vintage technology. Yes it slipped my mind JJ was one of the 3 remaining sources in the world. Slovakia, Russia and China and one of the reasons Blackburn Tech Tubes was such a big deal at the time.
Anyways the...
The only thing Mike Matthews (New Sensor) acquired is the names- no tooling -at least that I'm aware of. The only reissue " Mullard " Ive seen appears to be a (hopefully tweaked) Sovtek LPS. If you have more info please post a link. It would be cool if they did resurrect the old tooling...
Not sure what you are saying . New Sensor acquired the names "Mullard", Tung Sol", ect. Just a blasphemous use of venerable names imo... There are no vintage tube companies -unless you mean vintage tube dealers. Thats another story. Russia and China still produce tubes thankfully- they are the...
Got three of them still. Guess I should keep them safe...A pair sold for 749$ on ebay...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/TechTube-Blackburn-e813cc-Matched-Pair-BRAND-NEW-ULTRA-RARE-/121480769848?_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l10137&nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true