Can’t buy output tubes anywhere except from manufacturers at high prices.


I have given some thought about going the tube route for amplification but it sounds  like a risky move. None of usual online stores: Tube Store, Tube Depot or Upscale Audio have any output tube available. Are things that bad? 

hiendmmoe

I've ordered from VIVA new production Psvane KT88s as well as NOS Russian 7189A power tubes, no issues

FYI: B&H sells "Telefunken" tubes but they are not German made Telefunken tubes.

I asked TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik and they told me the tubes were made in partnership with JJ Factory of Slovakia.

I thought it was always common knowledge the "Telefunken Black Label" tubes were just JJ’s. Always look at the shape of the glass dome (especially on EL34, for example) -- only JJ’s have that goofy, awkward rounded dome shape.

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