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yeah, i hope this Telefunken video will make you laugh :) you know what to do now |
Thank you for the kind words. The price of Brimar tubes has generally been lower than the Mullard equivalent. To be perfectly honest I haven't bought a Brimar Trustee 6060 in many years. I would guess that because of their scarcity that it will boil down to you and the seller agreeing to a price usually on Ebay. I think that $100-$150 range people have mentioned seems appropriate. I still have 2 or 3 of them. Which brings me to the other point people have been alluding to. Tube rolling is indeed a slippery slope. I too couldn't get over the fact that with most tube rolls I heard a different sound. I liked it so much that I have a stupid number of tubes. I suppose I should sell but then I would want to buy them back again. Not only did I like rolling the various tubes I was using, I then just collected them for any of a number of reasons. I also thought I should get back ups for them. You see how it goes- So you can stop now or forever hold your piece. Quite honestly I enjoy my tube collection. However, I am still wondering why I bought so many short bottle 6SN7Ws. I have about 16 of them. I hate selling, many of these tubes are 70+ years old and might not sound great or even good in the buyers gear. I don't want to deal with complaints and returns, I am not a department store. At the same time I don't like it when the seller says no returns whatsoever, or as is. as found. I have been burned many times by unscrupulous sellers and have bought some real loser tubes . One prominent example is my experience buying Western Electric 421As. I was buying them for a headphone amp I bought that uses 6AS7Gs and 6080 power tubes. So many were feeble shadows of themselves, and I got the sense that the guy was selling it was simply trying to get his money back from the last guy. I swallowed a few and decided to look for other brands of the same construction, e.g. domino plates. I refused to do the same passing on a weak tube. That's what honesty buys you. |
