This morning, I did a spring cleaning on my vintage tubes collection. With the streamlining of the amplifiers, there are many tubes which became irrelevant to my current amplifiers. Thus, I took out my unused tubes such as the Philips Jan 7027a, Mullard EF86, EL34 and exchanged for these Mullard 6L6G tubes for my We 124 and KS16608 use.
Currently, I have managed to stock up quad set of the following 6L6 tubes variants:
- 1940s Military grade WE350B,
- 1960s 350B,
- RCA 6L6,
- BTW 6L6
- National Union 6L6
- Brimar 6L6
- Sylvania 6L6
- Mullard 6L6
- GEC KT66
I could not imagine how much tubes one need to stock up if one has different kind of amplifiers using different tubes such as EL84, EL34, KT88, KT66, 6L6, 845, 300B etc. With only 3 set of amplifiers (Leak 12.1, WE 124 & KS16608) and 2 pre-amplifiers (Fisher 50C & Marantz 7), my tubes requirements are quite manaeable as I only need to keep 6L6G/KT66, 5U4G, GZ32, 12Au7, 12 AX7, 6J7.
For those who want to enjoy good music from these vintage amplifiers would need to find time to hunt for these vintage tubes as "good tubes means good sound"! Moreover, these tubes are getting harder and harder to find, especially in quad set..better be quick!
Enjoy!
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