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PSA: Need tubes?
These guys are running a sale (up to 40% off - unheard of in tube-junkie circles) through Monday:
http://www.thetubestore.com/ For all you guys with low/mid-power EL84 amps (Vox, Carvin, Peavey, Bugera, Egnater, Bad Cat, Fender Juniors, et al.) I can't recommend the house-label Preferred Series highly enough; they're the Soviet-era mil-spec equivalent of the JAN tubes all the hard-core Fender guys would kill to get, and at $20 per ($14 for the 12AX7 preamp tubes - and an extra $5/ea. gets you matched triodes) it's one of the cheapest ways I know to make some major improvements in your tone - turned my Bugera V22 into a real little monster......
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Very Cool!
Bob
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just to add, antique electronics/amplified parts/tubesandmore has a 12% off on everything thru monday. i checked just one item to compare. the tubestore has jj el84 for $11.53 while antique has them for $8.79. shop each before you purchase. shipping charges from each may come into play also.
play music!
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Great deal. Unfortunately, I just bought a complete set for both my amps from thetubestore.com a few weeks ago. Never even crossed my mind there would be Black Friday deals on tubes.
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play music!
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Seems everybody and his Uncle Wong is using Shuguang tubes in EL84 amps these days, if only in the name of economy of manufacture; BTW they've got three quality levels - the $1.29 OEM crap you got in your Vox (and me in my Bugera), an upscale line that also includes some STR types made for various labels (Northern Electric, Preferred Series, et al.) and is competitive in quality/price with the better modern East European tubes, and an uber-premium line that comes in presentation boxes and is directed at the high-end audiophile market. TMK they produce the Preferred Series 12AX7 for thetubestore.com - nice stuff if you like JAN-style tone/response in your preamp stage but don't want to mortgage your first-born to get it...
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