fini Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Well I'll be darned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 That's cool, you get a nice Mullard box with your Russian El-34. I'm going to need a quad of El-34's eventually..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxg Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 If anyone takes the plunge and gets these please post to the forum your thoughts. I would do it myself but I have to buy 8 at a time so it gets a bit pricey to try things out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 I notice the same seller has Tung-Sol tubes which are also now made in Russia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krustyoldsarge Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Wow, they even look good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCM Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 I have a set, purchased from Paul at Bizzy B: http://www.2baudio.com/ I'm no tube expert, but Paul is and he says these are virtual copies of the original Mullards. I can say with certainty that they sound very different than the Electro Harmonix and Dutch Amperex EL34's I have. These provide a very resolved, tight sound. A little bright for me with this particular amp, but I only have a few hours on them so far. My opinion might change with more listening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHUFF Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 ---------------- On 3/7/2005 2:18:34 PM KCM wrote: I have a set, purchased from Paul at Bizzy B: http://www.2baudio.com/ I'm no tube expert, but Paul is and he says these are virtual copies of the original Mullards. I can say with certainty that they sound very different than the Electro Harmonix and Dutch Amperex EL34's I have. These provide a very resolved, tight sound. A little bright for me with this particular amp, but I only have a few hours on them so far. My opinion might change with more listening. ---------------- Practically all the eastern bloc tubes are copies to some degree, at least with dedicated audio tubes. The meaningful differences are the quality and purity of metals used, and possibly more so, the hardness of vacuum. The originals were treated to a rock hard vacuum (very time consuming) seldom seen today with anyone's tubes. There is more to the tube's quality than meets the eye. Many of today's "imported" varieties may sound wonderful and I don't doubt that, I own many, but the quality of construction will never come close to the OE American, Dutch, German and English products of yesteryear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 from what I have been told by a tube dealer the Mullard reissues are nothing special at all basically they are a existing already made EL34 that they added the Mullard logos too. I believe he told me they were Svetlana's or something. So his deduction was that you pay a extra $50 or more to get a tube that says "Mullard" Now the new reissue of the Tungsol 6550 is a completely new tube not sold under any other name. The glass envelop was custom made to copy the original Tungsol as was the inner construction. I had a set here not long ago and they are nice tubes but still didn't impress me anymore then the Valve Art KT88's that I already use. More of a side ways move in tone. Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnysal Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 I bought a russian made ferrari the other day...it doesn not seem to go -60 like the car magazines say... but my russian mullards are still going strong... tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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