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What makes Telefunken tubes sound better?

I've reached the point in sampling 12AU7 tubes below $100 per tube where I'm having to buy tube crates to keep the pairs I've sampled. I've tried NOS and new, but out of all I end up back with Telefunkens as having the least distortion and fastest transient response. Yet the Telefunken internals are not the best materials/quality; NOS Mullard CV4003 or the new Gold Lions have higher build quality for materials and precision.

Are there links somewhere that talk to what is different for the internal design/construction of a Telefunken tube? I'd like to support newer tube manufacturers based on educated consumerism, and hope that we can get someone to replace Telefunken at an affordable cost before NOS stock is no longer an option.
davide256
schubert
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Roxy54 I am aware I do make black and white statements.
One , this forums doesn't lend itself to nuance
Two, I'm 79 and don't have a lot of energy anyway.
Three, most that know lot a lot about the subject of discussion get what I mean.
Four, I'm well educated.

More importantly God has blessed/cursed me with the desire to pay attention all the 28.961 days I've been here.
I know what I know.

BTW, if I did not have the respect for your opinions I do, I wouldn't have bothered.
rodman99999
6,206 posts
 
Generally speaking; the monetary value that people place on
items, is a pretty fair indicator of how good they
might be(You can fool some of the people, all of the time and
all of the people, some of the time, but- you can't fool all
of the people, all of the time). Yes- there are different
tastes in sonics(ie: clean/liquid/defined and
warm/microphonic/tubey), and a wide variety of brands that
many consider desirable. However; if one checks the prices
that people have consistently(for decades) been willing to pay
for certain offerings, it becomes clear which are largely
considered, "the best," worldwide.
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geoffkait
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Arbeit macht frei

;-)
tortilladc
121 posts
 
"Funk" is part of the name so naturally they sound good.
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geoffkait
23,365 posts
 
Wasn't there a German band the Telefunkadelics?
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