Best looking tube?

[SET12]

Nice room SET12.
Do you would like inform us how is the sound of this 212E monoblocks??
Thanks

Wish they were mine but unfortunately they are not. Here is a review 6moons audio reviews: RoadTour 14 - Komuro's 212Es of these $45,000 US amplifiers. I once had the opportunity to purchase a pair of 212E tubes I wish I would of bought them!

Set12 that has got to be the most vintage PlayStation ever lol!

Probably! but I have never played with one as I have no interest in video games at 57 yrs of age 😀

I don't think my wife will agree with getting more amps to reduce the gas bill 😛
I should finish the 813/QB2-250 amps to warm up my office though (and keep the kids out...).

The 833 amp in the picture has been upgraded to TB3/2000 outputs some time ago. A lot better looking piece of glass 😎

Thanks for the up date! and yes I would agree! Better looking glass, I found his blog Reinouts 833A ~ TB3/1000 amp | silvercore Blog

Here is another beauty with much lower power an EML45 1.6 watt monoblock project that I designed the circuit for a friend if some of you haven't seen it already. The two of them take up 3ft by 3ft of space. The glow from within the chassis is LED biasing for a 12BH7 that is used to drive the EML45. The light listening to these amplifiers takes me back to the 1920's the sound is as astonishing as the glow.

The first version had dual rectifiers then I went to a bridge 6D22S rectifiers



SET12

 

[cogitech]

Glowing Hybrid Amp

...eye of the beholder, and all that. 🙂

 

[FullRangeMan]

Here is a review 6moons audio reviews: RoadTour 14 - Komuro's 212Es

Nice test, I will read it.
Thanks for the link.

 

[SET12]

...eye of the beholder, and all that. 🙂

That was pretty cool! I really liked the Thoriated filaments.

 

[hpeter]

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

100T

304TL

i think eimac has no ugly tubes🙂
(errr those cer-met coax/planar toobs)

xenon or mercury thyratrons for max eyecandy

C3JA


almighty gm100

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

and ofcourse 833c😀

 

[Cassiel]

Wow, just wow.

AL-82 tube getter - YouTube

 

[Kay Pirinha]

Surely not the biggest one, but one of the most beautiful tubes *imho* - the Telefunken AL 1 (not to forget it's predecessor RES 964)!

Best regards!

 

[hpeter]

i think if eimac would remake audio version of "150TL" it would be popular (at least for se guys)

 

[overtheairbroadcast]

Surely not the biggest one, but one of the most beautiful tubes *imho* - the Telefunken AL 1 (not to forget it's predecessor RES 964)!

Best regards!

Nice engineering and even better looks.

 

[Dinkers]

tubes

Striptease KT88 and EL34. In the second picture is the Empress tubes 845, RV12P2000 and Telefunken EL12. Regards Dinkers

 

[Cassiel]

Due to too may incidents involving lacerations of internal parts among the lonesome tube guy population, manufactures have been obliged to take measures, new measures. As a result of this el34's shape types have been banned.

 

[peranders]

What do you think? The last tube 25 kV, 5 kA if I remember correctly. 30 cm long.

 

[Cassiel]

30 cm long.

I think it isn't practical.

 

[hpeter]

those hydrogen thyratrons ..

radar pulse tubes always huge and weird looking

class a se anybody? 🙂

 

[Pano]

Anyone ever seen a VT127A in person? Not exactly pretty, but impressive looking in a Sci-Fi way.

 

[hpeter]

what is status of 100-250th-tl ?
are made even today?

 

[Cassiel]

Thanks for that pic Pano. Saved.

 

[danFrank]

Anyone ever seen a VT127A in person? Not exactly pretty, but impressive looking in a Sci-Fi way.

I have one of these. What were they used for... Radar in WWII?
Daniel

 

[peranders]

I think it isn't practical.

It depends of what you are going to use it for.

 

[Pano]

What were they used for... Radar in WWII?
Daniel

I think so. Even read somewhere they were used in the radar that saw the attack on Perl Harbor coming. No idea if that's true.