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previous: Billyboy After reading the posts on the othe... -- 4/23/2000 2:26 AM

Re: Sovtek 6V6EH...is it for real?

4/23/2000 3:15 AM
Steve Slick	Re: Sovtek 6V6EH...is it for real? I have discussed this tube with both Kevin O'Connor (London Power) and Charles Barcellona (SwAMP). Both recommended them. In a few months I'm going to modify my amp to have a pair of 6L6s and 6V6, based on a switching idea in Kevin's The Ultimate Tone I. I communicated w/SovTek and they said the plate voltage on that tube was rated at 460 (I think, + or - 10) volts. Wow! The original rating was 360. Kevin said they would reliably go even higher. So, I can't say for sure, but I've heard from reliable sources that they are reliable, good- sounding tubes. I think they are the only production 6V6s today. I won't use NOS tubes, simply won't pay the increasing costs for dwindling supply. But, to each his own. Dear God! Don't let Tim C. know about this. Next thing you know, he'll go on another rampage and start smashing tubes again. Poor bastard, he needs professional help. Cheers, Steve Slick

4/23/2000 3:15 AM

Steve Slick

Re: Sovtek 6V6EH...is it for real?

I have discussed this tube with both Kevin O'Connor (London Power) and Charles Barcellona (SwAMP). Both recommended them.

In a few months I'm going to modify my amp to have a pair of 6L6s and 6V6, based on a switching idea in Kevin's The Ultimate Tone I.

I communicated w/SovTek and they said the plate voltage on that tube was rated at 460 (I think, + or - 10) volts. Wow! The original rating was 360. Kevin said they would reliably go even higher.

So, I can't say for sure, but I've heard from reliable sources that they are reliable, good- sounding tubes. I think they are the only production 6V6s today.

I won't use NOS tubes, simply won't pay the increasing costs for dwindling supply. But, to each his own.

Dear God! Don't let Tim C. know about this. Next thing you know, he'll go on another rampage and start smashing tubes again. Poor bastard, he needs professional help.

Cheers,

Steve Slick

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