"Larry Ozarow" wrote in message
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AES is usually a bit more expensive than
the rest, sometimes as much as 50%. A dealer
I've dealt with only once or twice but seems
to be a very nice guy and has good prices on
tubes is at http://www.radiodaze.com/

Larry

That's a good point. I buy most of my tubes from other sources, but I
usually check with my AES catalog first, just to establish a sort of
baseline.

The best service I've had came from Triode Electronics, but they don't stock
many radio tubes.

http://store.yahoo.com/triodeel/index.html

I've also had excellent results from ESRC, Fair Radio and Brent Jessee
Recording. Actually, the only less than excellent result I've had came from
AES. I ordered some new 6X8 from an AES sales flyer, and it turned out that
a couple of them were obviously used and the box and tube brands didn't
match on one of the used tubes. The used tubes tested weak as well. I
didn't bother complaining, because the price was good, and tubes which test
weak usually work OK.

I got most of my tubes in used bulk lots.

Frank Dresser