[tanchiro58]

I need your judgment and clarification about these two kinds of resistors that I bought a couple days ago. Actually I bought a pair of Allen Bradley 390K 2W for the output tubes in my Sun Audio amp and want to upgrade to the best quality resistors as AN Tantalum 390K 2W. The seller said that the two resistors look the same but with different quality (I do not want to name the seller at this website but if you know you will be shock!!!). Here are the pictures:

Left one is Allen Bradley and right one is Audio Note Tantalum



Allen Bradley 390K 2W is soldered



Brand new Audio Note Tantalum 390K 2W



Thanks in advance for your clarification.

[Scott F.]

Although I've not played with the AN 2w resistors (only the 1w and under in the weird green-ish case), I swiped this pic from HiFi Collective over in the UK. They sell AN resistors.



In the 2w form, it looks as if the AN's come in both style casings. Not sure who you got yours from but if you believe the picture, it sure looks like the 2 watters come in the old brown AB/Ohmite cases.

At $15 bucks each, I'd sure hate to get them mixed up with my Allen Bradley's