Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new.
Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; I just purchased a pair of these and they are fantastic; they raised my phono to a new level.
Now here's the question, I paid $60 apiece for a pair of these brand new. "Uncle Kevin" at Upscale Audio, sells these for $349. apiece. His are NOS, they should cost more, they also probably last longer, but do they sound better? That is the question. It is not in my budget to pay $700. to find out. Do you have any comments on this?
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Telefunken never had a factory, or-manufactured a tube, in Slovakia. All of their assets, during their vacuum tube production years, were located in Germany. There is no, "same factory". The name/logo wasn’t even purchased/licensed, for use in the USA, until 2000. It was well after that, JJ (et al) contracted to make tubes for ’Telefunken Elektroakustik’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefunken#:~:text=Locations%20and%20manufacturing%20plants,-FE%20I%20.... I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with their tubes. BUT- they’re NOT Telefunkens, in anything but name/logo. |
op https://www.adorama.com/tfe88cctkq.html?gclid=CjwKCAjw8-78BRA0EiwAFUw8LK11bf0-Cy4Geg8n2lXvcYvr-x5tG5... ^^^^^what you bought -- it is a gold pin sovtek/electroharmonix made russian tube https://tubedepot.com/products/electro-harmonix-6922-eh-gold-pin-preamp-vacuum-tube?gclid=CjwKCAjw8-... ^^^^^ same same - probably one of the best modern 6dj8 types... certainly well qc’d at the plant so as to justify the price **************************************************************************************************************************** just so you know op - a real german made tele small signal tube will have a 4-seamed top and usually a diamond mark on the glass circle at the bottom of the glass envelope inside the 9 pins https://www.tubemonger.com/Telefunken_E88CC_6922_MINT_NOS_NIB_1968_ULM_Diamon_p/1190.htm |
To anyone's knowledge, are there counterfit TFKs with the diamond stamped in the glass on the bottom of the tube, or can one assume that if the diamond shape is there, we have a genuine TFK? Seems to me by now someone must have copied it, so you can never be sure what you have. In my case, I have ECC83s that I personally bought new in the mid-1970s. Only because of that, I am fairly confident they are real. |
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