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
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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
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@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.
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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.
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