[Boatanchors] Chinese 6L6GC ?

[Richard W. Solomon]

Isn't Iso located in the Hunan Province ??

Couldn't resist ...

Reminds me of the MADE IN USA fiasco.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

-----Original Message-----
>From: BLIMPY <blimpboy at sonic.net>
>Sent: Dec 11, 2008 2:20 PM
>To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Boatanchors] Chinese 6L6GC ?
>
>Ask yourself.. do you really have to have GC's  / 5581 / 7025  ?
>or will some other plain vanilla 6L6 or metal variant work as well ?
>
>RF or AF ?
>
>I dont think anybody needs a GC for RF.
>
>I just bought a pair of these things.. .because they were cheap, and I'm 
>poor.  I have 3 AF-67 to re-tube.  I sprung for matched set for modulator 
>use.
>Time will tell how they behave.  It's not that demanding.  Not like a hot 
>rod guitar amp that eats tubes for lunch.
>
>( dang guitar nuts want Tung Sol 5881's  then wreck them with overdrive ! )
>
>If you want good tubes for  good audio.. and can't pay the freight for Tung 
>Sol or Sylvania or RCA...  then the Sovtek will be the cheap new tube of 
>choice.
>These play nicely as single ended driver service in globe kings, and work 
>fine in P-P audio situations.
>
>There is a true story of the guy who found a cigarette butt in one of his 
>new chineese tubes.  Should tell you something.
>I would put that down as urban legend if I didnt know somebody who'd seen it 
>!
>
>What really bothers me about many of these cheap tubes is that the rare 
>metals once used in the production of good tubes
>may well be skipped or skimped .
>
>I have had good luck with  12AU7 and 12AX7 tubes from Slovakia, Russia  ( 
>JJ, Sovtek, Svetlana)  for general use.
>And Russian 6L6.
>
>On the other hand, chineese are getting thier act together  with more and 
>more ISO certified factories.
>
>So a difinitive, I dunno from me.
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