Posted by Wayne Parham [ 70.234.106.162 ] on July 17, 2008 at 12:46:40:

In Reply to: Re: 12AX7s posted by James Christopher on July 17, 2008 at 01:48:43:

I'd like to hear your impressions of each, so let me know when you write it up.

I have a half dozen of them in each price range. The only one I thought was terrible was the Sovtek. Sounds like they used rusty iron plates and pumped the exhaust of an old school bus inside 'em rather than pulling a vacuum. All the others I have sound good.

My favorite is an RCA, second favorite is GE. Electro-Harmonix is nice too. Tung-Sol doesn't do anything weird, sounds good. All these are new production but the RCA and GE, all used in an Audio Note Kit 2.

I'm thinking about trying a Telefunken. Your thoughts?

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