Hello. My name is Andy and I am 49 years old from the UK. I got into tubes about 2016/17 at which point I built a Bottlehead Crack and of course got drawn into the obsession resulting a few months later and with a much lighter wallet a heavily modded Crack and some very nice tubes. I have 2 TS5998 which will hopefully last until I can no longer hear and I have bought some really nice ECC82.
I mean mid range grails, not the uber priced ones. Siemens chrome plate, Marconi (Mullard) 1959 B329, Brimar CV4003 and many more. Most I paid (before this week) for any tube was £33 for the Siemens. I got the TS5998 for £40 the pair so was very lucky. I just broke that record a few days ago and paid £50 for a K61 1959 Halo wavy glass which I am yet to receive. Branded Cossor so yet to be identified in terms of actual factory.
My favourite ECC82 is a Mazda foreign smooth long plate which after some research turned out to be EI Yugoslavia but it makes my ears sing and thats what matters. That one probably cost me less than a tenner. No-one wants the Mazdas.
I mean mid range grails, not the uber priced ones. Siemens chrome plate, Marconi (Mullard) 1959 B329, Brimar CV4003 and many more. Most I paid (before this week) for any tube was £33 for the Siemens. I got the TS5998 for £40 the pair so was very lucky. I just broke that record a few days ago and paid £50 for a K61 1959 Halo wavy glass which I am yet to receive. Branded Cossor so yet to be identified in terms of actual factory.
My favourite ECC82 is a Mazda foreign smooth long plate which after some research turned out to be EI Yugoslavia but it makes my ears sing and thats what matters. That one probably cost me less than a tenner. No-one wants the Mazdas.
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