All of the Bendix tubes have a distinct appearance.
5992 flouresces like crazy and sounds good.
829 and 832 are interesting looking - my wife keeps an 829 on the computer because she likes the way they look.
The brown base, cobalt blue, Tesla EL34's look great and sound good, maybe the best of that type.
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5992 flouresces like crazy and sounds good.
829 and 832 are interesting looking - my wife keeps an 829 on the computer because she likes the way they look.
The brown base, cobalt blue, Tesla EL34's look great and sound good, maybe the best of that type.
Win W5JAG
This is absolute gold!
I'm sorry Sy, that 703a is the weirdest looking tube I have seen.
Some of the others however are pretty special. I had not really looked at the Emission Lab tubes before - they make an awesome looking tube - but the cost!!
So far I like the look of the Emission Labs 300b and some of their rectifier tubes. I could throw in a couple of 0B3's to regulate the bias voltage I guess.
The 205d is a beautiful tube but a quick search seemed to indicate that they are not produced now and the NOS versions look quite $$.
As for the triodes with the thoriated tungsten - love them of course but having just built an 845 I am going to go for something a little more subtle - I do love those gold mesh 300b's.....
Keep the suggestions coming.
Cheers,
Rob
I'm sorry Sy, that 703a is the weirdest looking tube I have seen.
Some of the others however are pretty special. I had not really looked at the Emission Lab tubes before - they make an awesome looking tube - but the cost!!
So far I like the look of the Emission Labs 300b and some of their rectifier tubes. I could throw in a couple of 0B3's to regulate the bias voltage I guess.
The 205d is a beautiful tube but a quick search seemed to indicate that they are not produced now and the NOS versions look quite $$.
As for the triodes with the thoriated tungsten - love them of course but having just built an 845 I am going to go for something a little more subtle - I do love those gold mesh 300b's.....
Keep the suggestions coming.
Cheers,
Rob
nhuwar said:
The 833A or better the 833C is a super tube for a self excited RF power oscillator to run plasma speakers. Here is a poor resolution shot of an 833A I had on the bench. I will follow with a better picture of the 22" discharge. This would have made quite low audio frequencies if a 500 watt plate modulator had been wired into the plate supply of the 833A.
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I like the looks of the Lewis and Kaufman UH50 and 100TH. Great for 1950s jazz. 🙂
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Purchased these years ago to subsitute for EL34's in a Heathkit stereo amp but the bases were too close together.
perhaps it is the er, phallic nature, but the first time I saw a 211s on a Western Electric amplifier, I was impressed.
I'm guessing the stickers were put on when manufactured. I purhased them almost 30 years ago when they had very little value and faking them would not have been worth it.
I think I paid $10 for 6 at a ham radio auction and I can remember breaking one.
Ripley might not believe it but it's true.
For envelope shape:
100T
304TL
GU-32
6C33 (probably the single biggest reason for this tube's popularity)
7402 (upper right corner)
For glow:
Mercury vapor rectifiers
833/GU-48
75TL
IN-9 Argon
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100T
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304TL
GU-32
6C33 (probably the single biggest reason for this tube's popularity)
7402 (upper right corner)
For glow:
Mercury vapor rectifiers
833/GU-48
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75TL
IN-9 Argon
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I was hoping someone could identify it? Looks like a waveguide within a large magnet.
I am voting for GU72.
Liquid cooled RB300 Svetlana (Uni Sea Von Gaylord Audio) impressively looking gear.
Liquid cooled RB300 Svetlana (Uni Sea Von Gaylord Audio) impressively looking gear.
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