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Hi! Calling for your great experience to help me identify these tubes that I came across recently. Mullard old logo "Made in Great Britain" 12AU7 ECC82, but not much more info. The etched code is completely off on 1 tube and the other is suuuuper hard to read. It's definitely yellow paint, I...
A simple search on Google shows up the UK Brimar website selling modern Brimar tubes.
I know vintage Brimar 12au7 is a good alternative to Millard and maybe Telefunken ones, but what about modern Brimars?
Do modern Brimar tubes live up to their glories in the past?
Morning all!
I have some Mullard UL41 tubes that I'm having no luck finding info on, mine have painted red tips and raised red ring at the bottom edge just before the posts. Has anyone come across these before?
Thanks very kindly!
Hi all, I just replaced seven year old Svetlana EL34 tubes (one of the tubes shorted) with Mullard re-issues. When I hooked up the new tubes and let the amp warm up (twenty minutes) I hooked up my multi-meter. The previous older tubes had the bias set to 1.56 (dynaco specifications) but when I...
over the last year or so, have recommended to many to look into the Shuguang WEKT88 plus red base tubes. an excellent sounding tube.
thought I would provide a short update on the shuguang red base WE-KT88s
bought one quad set in August 2019.
Bought a 2nd quad set in late Dec 2019 or early...
Hello all, please bare with the intro, i do get to the question later down the post.
Having recently acquired a 500b, ive gone over it a little. It has a very dark gold plate, lettering and chasis beautiful, stock tubes testing ex. Orig lights still working, pulled from a console and its clear...
I'd restored the 500B some time ago. Jim McShane Kit with PIO K40Ys and Matched Tung Sol quad from him also + IBBA.
Decided to order a set of the Sovtek 12AX7LPS and got here this afternoon.
After taking out the 7 12AX7s in the chassis, I found they all measured ~56 on my Eico 625.
The New...
Spent some time tonight fiddling around with my idea for a bootstrapped Mullard 5-20-style front end (AF gain + inverter stages) for a 6550 U-L amp. The simulation behaved more or less exactly as I expected it to (modulo my triode models not liking a CCS in the inverter tail for whatever...
I recently acquired several older amplifiers from a former hobbyist cleaning out their stash of stuff they never use. A few of the pieces are pretty interesting. One is a Scott 222-B integrated amp that is in really nice condition. The other is an Altec Lansing 345A. Additionally, there were two...
I have a buddy thats going to visit family in GB, he was wondering if there are any audiophile stores he could visit while there. Are there any places there you could go and buy vintage Mullard or Brimar tubes?
Thanks!