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like they say, they ain't making em anymore yet folks still want em
Andy at VTS has the 5AR4's made in the Japanese Matsushita plant set up and tooled by Mullard for in the mid-$60's last I looked. You would be hard pressed to hear a difference between them and the Blackburn Mullard's for three times the price. A boat load of those tubes were sold in the US by Westinghouse and other long gone brands. Just today I rotated one into my Supratek preamp in place of a Blackburn Mullard and can't hear a bit of difference.
This is a long thread, and I want to mention Antique Electronic Supply again:https://www.tubesandmore.com/
Be careful buying "NOS" tubes from them. The ones I received were most definitely well used.
I have twice received clearly used tubes purchased from Upscale Audio as NOS. It has been a few years since that happened, but then I've never ordered tubes from them again.
First time buyer at TubeDepot.com...color me quite impressed First off, he (Joe) answered the phone at 5PM. When he did, he was crisp, professional and to the point. The price of the JJ ECC81/12AT7's bought were very good and he offers a range of testing extras (matched quad adds $2.00 each tube, and low noise and microphonics adds $4 a piece).http://site.tubedepot.com/preamp_options.htmlShipping is a reasonable $3.95 and it was packaged in overkill packaging. Confirmation of order was sent via email the day after and it got here (from Memphic, TN) in only 3 days. Hello do you still recommend the tubedepot ?ThanksA fine performance I think...one that I will probably reward with future tube orders
First time buyer at TubeDepot.com...color me quite impressed First off, he (Joe) answered the phone at 5PM. When he did, he was crisp, professional and to the point. The price of the JJ ECC81/12AT7's bought were very good and he offers a range of testing extras (matched quad adds $2.00 each tube, and low noise and microphonics adds $4 a piece).http://site.tubedepot.com/preamp_options.htmlShipping is a reasonable $3.95 and it was packaged in overkill packaging.Confirmation of order was sent via email the day after and it got here (from Memphic, TN) in only 3 days.Hello do you still recommend the tubedepot ?ThanksA fine performance I think...one that I will probably reward with future tube orders