TAD vacuum tubes?

You might consider the new Psvane Horizon series, which are available on Amazon.  The EL34-AT is supposedly a pretty good tube.

Brent Jesse has older and newer Chinese EL34’s for $100 and $80 a pair.

He also has 1970’s production Siemens for $200 a pair.

He sold out of the Japanese/Philips EL34’s since the last time I looked (a month or two ago).

DeKay

PS:

Just read a few places that the TAD EL34 STR Red Base is made in China or Hong Kong and tested in Germany.

A few pics showed "GERMANY" in raised letters molded into the bottom of the base.

So special production (the bases anyway) for TAD?

The first site I looked @ they were on sale for around $37.

DeKay

@dekay I’ve never noticed the raised lettering in the bottom of my TAD Red Base EL34s - I’m now curious.

I can’t say much about the sonic signature of these tubes since I was previously running KT88s in my amp. I will say that these EL34s have been reliable over the course of the past 9 months with long use during the weekends. If I remember correctly I paid just under $200 for a quad from Viva.

Toro3:

One of the lettering pics was @ TubeDepot.

Seems that most of the online reviews of this tube are for its use in guitar amps, which does not equate to HiFi (IMO) and I played electric guitar from the early 60's until 1986.

Back then I was more picky about the tubes in my guitar amps than the tubes I used in my Eico, Mac and Dynaco gear.

DeKay