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They use them in guitar amps for the way they transition into distortion,
tone The RCA with the black plates do sound totally different, they are going after specific tubes made by spacific factorys , spacific years They ID them by plates, getters, tops, logos. A set of domestic GE 6CA7's or RCA 6V6's is a hard find in 2006. All the Eastern block and Chinese (fancy silkscreen reliable Groove Tubes) just sound lousy or short You cant run them in a classic Marshall JTM 45 and play Led Zepplin.........even if you turn down to 11. Some of these rock and roll and Bass guitar amps like a 70's Ampeg SVT are very hard on tubes, who needs a failure in the middle of a show or have lug a spare 90 pound beast around. Check out the prices on Telefunken 12AX7's, GE 6550's and British KT-88's.......OUCH ! -Joe "funkbastler" wrote in message ... Somebody please clue me in about what's going on. A pair of 6CA7's just went for $203. Earlier today, a pair of 6SN7's went for over $300 (I missed out on checking the final price). I get the impression that people are collecting these, and the color of the base, or the shape of the getter, or *whatever* is very important (to them) in determining the value. Can anyone really tell the difference in the way 6SN7's by RCA/Sylvania/Dumont/etc sound in a preamp? Does a brown base impart better tonal qualities than a black base, or is it the other way around? Tell me what's driving these ridiculous prices.... I may be sitting on a gold mine here and not know it. -- -fb- |
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