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Vacuum Tubes for Amps
Best 6V6
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:10:56 +0200, "Tom André Hansen"
>just wondering
There's a lot of good ones, the only ones I'm not terribly
fond of are the Chinese & Russian ones.
We've done some torture testing on 6V6's, the British STC
ones have been able to handle 450V successfully..
I'm not sure I'd recommend that as standard practice,
tho.
At least for guitar amps, Tungsol seems to be best.
They often turn up as Motorola branded.
There's some interesting pin-compatible
interchanges: 6F6-GT, WE-349A, and
KT63. These should need a little bias adjustment
if used in place of 6V6-GT. They also draw
a bit more filament current, which *usually*
isn't a problem.
When I've tried 6F6 GT in place of 6V6-GT,
I liked the 6F6-GT better.
Part of the problem over naming what's the best
6V6 is that so many places made them..I suspect
that as many as 80% (just a USWAG) of the tube
manufacturers that have ever existed, have made
6V6 or something that will interchange.
And most of those were good tubes, too.
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