I know this is a silly issue but I'm helping my son build a KT88 amp and I see that the JJ tubes put their pretty label on the side that would place the tube socket fasteners front and rear of the socket instead of side to side - which is how I've always oriented my sockets. I don't really care about labels but he'd like the JJ label facing forward. What would you do?
Jim
Jim
A serious amp is not built to be seen; it is not even built to be heard, but so that the music can be heard. Socket orientation should always be a matter of engineering, not aesthetics. As others have said, you are likely to find random placing of valve labels/printing anyway.
The "JJ KT 88" label is silk screened on the tube's glass envelope.
TubeDepot.com | JJ KT88 Blue Glass Power Vacuum Tube
TubeDepot.com | JJ KT88 Blue Glass Power Vacuum Tube
Turn the sockets if you want this. JJ will print all tubes in the same direction.I know this is a silly issue but I'm helping my son build a KT88 amp and I see that the JJ tubes put their pretty label on the side that would place the tube socket fasteners front and rear of the socket instead of side to side - which is how I've always oriented my sockets. I don't really care about labels but he'd like the JJ label facing forward. What would you do?
Jim
Thank you for all your responses! I'm going to install the sockets as I always have and not worry about the JJ labels. One option I contemplated was drilling a larger hole for the KT88 tube and mounting the tube socket on a subplate under the chassis, but this is too much work for such a small issue like this.
Jim
Jim
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