Members JT1 Posted October 12, 2005 Members Share Posted October 12, 2005 Looking for some advice or opinions on the 12ax Phillips tubes. Seems that a lot of JSX users are switching to these and loving them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chuckgp Posted October 12, 2005 Members Share Posted October 12, 2005 Been a while, but wasn't Philips the 'father' company to Mullard, Amperex, etc? I love their Holland EL-84 NOS. The Miniwatt tubes are awesome.No need to comment on Mullard, they're the best, IMHO. Although I'm stuck on NOS Tungsrams lately. Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KCA NOS Tubes Posted October 12, 2005 Members Share Posted October 12, 2005 Originally posted by chuckgp Been a while, but wasn't Philips the 'father' company to Mullard, Amperex, etc?I love their Holland EL-84 NOS. The Miniwatt tubes are awesome.No need to comment on Mullard, they're the best, IMHO.Although I'm stuck on NOS Tungsrams lately.Chuck Philips Holland are the ones Chuck is referring to. All are very high quality tubes. There are also Philips US tubes which are good but not the same level as the European tubes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members igge Posted October 12, 2005 Members Share Posted October 12, 2005 I used to have a bunch of Philips 12ax7 & 12at7 tubes back in the day, bought them in '92 when all tubes were expensive. They sounded good. Slightly OT, I just scored a bunch (26) of NOS Philips Miniwatt EF89 pentodes for only 110 SEK (~10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chuckgp Posted October 13, 2005 Members Share Posted October 13, 2005 Here's some of the info I have. A guy put this up on his Ebay auction for EL-84 2-3 years ago... Mike, I'd like to hear your opinion of if this is valid, thanks. "EL-84 made by the Philips plants in the 1960's. All made by Philips under these names:Valvo--Philips--Amperex--Mullard--Mazda--Adzam--Dario--Miniwatt--Pope. Southern Europe Philips sold and produced as Miniwatt or Dario(Italy); Germany was Valvo. ( I have Holland Miniwatts) US/Canada were Amperex and/or with Bugle Boy (I have 50's-60's HOLLAND Bugle Boy and Austria too.) Date codes were kM1 (Holland), rX1/kM1 BXXX (Great Britain),rX3 DXX or rXP DX (Germany)." Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JT1 Posted October 13, 2005 Author Members Share Posted October 13, 2005 bump 4 more info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rhino bucket Posted October 13, 2005 Members Share Posted October 13, 2005 i got one that was cryo treated. thing sounds better than the small number of new production tubes i have tried. however the thing got microphonic pretty quickly, so no longer use it. might be worth a try, they aren't that expensive as far as nos tubes go. try one in the v1 slot and see what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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