What are we going to do about Tele 12AU7 prices

Tesla used same tooling as Teles so there comes the resemblance.
Tesla E83CC is a great tube anyway.
But pricing of ECC802S, ECC82 has gone up.

I agree with  ghasley1. Telefunken is not known for their great 12AU7 tubes at all. They are nothing special to my ears. Telefunken did make some amazing sounding 6922's and 12AX7's however.  Look for a nice pair of Amperex long plate 12AU7's for starters.

Other ECC82’s I’ve disliked for pretty much the same reason(s) I disliked Telefunken smooth/ribbed plate EC82’s in my preamp are...

- early Silver plate EI’s
- 60’s/70’s Tungsram (various)

Hope this helps.

DeKay

I like the new  Mullard 12AU7  great prices full sound.   But every amp and preamp brand is different.  I would ask who is using what tubes in your same equipment for a piece of better information on performance. 

@ghasley, This brings up a question I had previously regarding accessories provided by equipment manufacturers.  I would think that an audio equipment manufacturer would pair their equipment with tubes or power cords that sound great with that equipment . . that they know their equipment better than anyone and sample different accessory items to come up with what they think sounds best.  

Schist obviously thinks this way, as in the brochure that comes with the Freya+, they recommend using the plain power cord they supply, as it doesn’t make sense to them that a fancy power cord is going to make a difference when they consider all the contractor-grade wire supplying power in the walls of your house (of course, I swapped in a fancy power cord, just in case!)

So, wouldn’t the tubes provided with the equipment be ones that the manufacturer thinks are pretty good? For the relatively low cost of the Freya+, they could include other, more costly tubes and charge a few hundreds bucks extra, and people would pay that.  Right?