Scored Some Bendix 5992

[Frazzled]

Scored 6 of these beauties as well as some other interesting tubes.
Can't wait to try them in the guitar amp I'm building... Overkill for a guitar amp? Perhaps... but I just gotta try them.

Don

[Colt45]

For the money, I don't know if I'd use them in a guitar amp

Just realized you're in sask too. Cool

[Poindexter]

Best midrange and tonal density I've heard, and I'm a student of all 6V6 types. The ones I heard were pretty hummy, though. This in a PP circuit, so it points to highish and uneven h-k leakage.

Killer tone, though. I wouldn't use them as sacrificial lambs in some guitar circuit either.

Aloha,

Poinz
AudioTropic

[radiotron]

I'm having success with a pair of these triode strapped in line preamp, very clean, and not too microphonic compared to vanilla 6V6s I've tried.

[Frazzled]

No... I have a set of test tubes that I'll use when I first fire up the amp and get it set up, but once that is done in go the Bendix tubes. I'll report on their performance once I'm done building and testing. Also if they'll give me the tone I'm looking for I don't mind the expence. :-)

[kevinkr]

Originally posted by Frazzled
No... I have a set of test tubes that I'll use when I first fire up the amp and get it set up, but once that is done in go the Bendix tubes. I'll report on their performance once I'm done building and testing. Also if they'll give me the tone I'm looking for I don't mind the expence. :-)

It's not just the expense, they're also quite rare and have performance levels that would seem to make their use in nice little hifi SE amplifiers more easily justifiable. (You might be stunned to see what these can go for on eBay when they do show up. Sometimes > $100 US each.) Seems a shame to destroy them in a guitar amplifier, but they are your tubes to do with what you will. I'm sure they will sound quite nice although perhaps not better than much cheaper expendable types that are readily available.

[w5jag]

I have quite a few 5992.

In my system (Simple SE) I think they have a definite shift toward the higher frequencies than most other 6V6 at the same operating point.

Sometimes I like that, sometimes I don't.

They are way cool looking tubes, give off a great blue glow, and are well worth using just because of that. For a hi fi amp, I'm not all that sure they are that much better than other 6V6 made in the 50's or 60's. They also draw about 25% more filament current, fwtw.

I don't think they are really that rare, and if you want to use them in a guitar amp I would go for it. I would expect the rugged avionics style construction would excel in a guitar amp.

What good are tubes if you don't use them?

Win W5JAG

[Frazzled]

I think they will probably sound great with my Marshall inspired tone stack. I was also considering a build of a couple of SE amps for home use cause that legendary blue glow would be sweet to look at!

As far as rarity, that won't stop me from using them, although I have a huge collection of cool NOS tubes I am not really a collector, I enjoy having a tone pallet available to me.

Thanks

Originally posted by w5jag
I have quite a few 5992.

In my system (Simple SE) I think they have a definite shift toward the higher frequencies than most other 6V6 at the same operating point.

Sometimes I like that, sometimes I don't.

They are way cool looking tubes, give off a great blue glow, and are well worth using just because of that. For a hi fi amp, I'm not all that sure they are that much better than other 6V6 made in the 50's or 60's. They also draw about 25% more filament current, fwtw.

I don't think they are really that rare, and if you want to use them in a guitar amp I would go for it. I would expect the rugged avionics style construction would excel in a guitar amp.

What good are tubes if you don't use them?

Win W5JAG

[kevinkr]

Then I'd say go for it... Let us know how it turns out. Pictures are always appreciated too..