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Can 12AX7s and such still be ordered?
Yup. Tubes that are popular with musicians (for guitar amplifiers, etc.) are still in production in a few factories (China and Russia, mostly), and there's still an active trade in "new old stock" and "used and tested" tubes of these types. The 12AX7/12AU7 family are heavily used in guitar amps, and so remain available. I recently lucked into finding a big batch of tubes of various sorts at a garage/moving sale... got three boxes of used tubes, two emission-type tube testers, and some manuals and tube-data guides, for the "please take this away, I don't want to take it all to Arizona" price of $4. A friend of mine glanced at them, and identified several Telefunken 12AX7 tubes ("These are gold!"). I ended up selling a batch of seven of them (tested good on his fancy tester) on eBay for $145! Sorta hated to let them go, but none of my audio gear is glassFET-based and I figured that other people could make better use of them than I. |
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