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Originally Posted by Tyson
I also found some nice Holland made Mullard EL34 tubes with DD getters and some original Tung Sol 6550 (USA made) tubes. Man, so many tubes to try out!!
With some of the "premium" new tubes like Psvane, Emission Labs, Elrog, etc being so expensive, it just makes sense to buy NOS when possible. Of course I have a bunch of Electro-Harmonix and new production Tung Sol and new production Mullard, Sovtek, etc... but it's so much easier to justify a little more $$ for NOS when it's just a pair of output tubes needed. My old amps took a quad (or more), so I was way more price sensitive before.
Although $230 for a pair of NOS Tung Sol 6550s (branded Sylvania) is about the upper limit of what I'm willing to pay. Although, at the rate I swap tubes, theoretically the various tubes I have might actually last me the rest of my life :P
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FWIW, I have found that most of the new production power tubes better sounding than old production. There are some exceptions. YMMV.
The Shuguang and Psvane CV-181's do take some hours to settle in.