[AMRadio] 300B's Oh boy!

[Rob Atkinson]

I tihnk the 807 is a 6L6 with a plate cap on top.   Only reason they
have not blown up in price is the glass audio latte sippers want
single ended tubes because h.v. freaks them out.

Rob
K5UJ

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 8:43 PM Mike Sawyer <w3slk at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> If I remember the article correctly, Bill came to the conclusion that 6CA7's
> (aka EL34s) had the better S/N ratio vs. 6L6's which weren't too far behind.
> For a person that listens to AM radio the nuances aren't going to be
> detectable. Especially when you throw in atmospheric noise on top of it!
> Eric, WB4VVI(sk), once told me that mostly multi-grid tubes, including the
> venerable 807, were based off of the 6L6 design. Personally, I think a pair
> of 6L6's in push-pull, (or 'shove-yank' as 'Slab' Frank, 'Bacon', KB4AHE
> would say) are the 'bees knees' as a speech amp, audio amp, or guitar amp!
>
> Mod-U-Lator,
> Mike(y)/W3SLK