Groove Tubes Gold Series

videocat23 · Post by **videocat23** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:47 am

I just bought a quad of EL34's and 3 12AX7's of the groove tubes gold series. The rating on the EL34's is a 4. Anyone used these before? What did you like/dislike? Thanks

Post by **VelvetGeorge** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:32 pm

I haven't tried them. What's the marketing hustle on the gold series? Are they hand picked? Extra tested?

George

Trying to catch Flames 1950, one post at a time.

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:52 pm

Trying to catch Flames 1950, one post at a time.

Fighting to stay ahead of Velvet, one post at a time. But since we've seen more of him in the last two days than the last three months I probably won't hold the "most posts" title for long.

Country Boy Shane · Post by **Country Boy Shane** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:00 pm

VelvetGeorge wrote:I haven't tried them. What's the marketing hustle on the gold series? Are they hand picked? Extra tested?

George

Trying to catch Flames 1950, one post at a time.

They feature a fancy paint job on the glass envelope done by the Cambodian love child of Lucy Liu and Herbie Hancock.

tonejones · Post by **tonejones** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:41 pm

They feature a fancy paint job on the glass envelope done by the Cambodian love child of Lucy Liu and Herbie Hancock.

(In my best southern accent): Man I bet that makes them sound purrdy!!!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:20 am

I wasn't aware of any special quirks or anything. I just got the hook up and a local guitar store so I took them

rjgtr · Post by **rjgtr** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:57 pm

The gold series appears to be the "normal" Groove Tubes with all the testing, matching etc. The Silver series is the budget line. The sets of GT-12AX7-Ms I bought came in a gold box.

So there's no mystery, just a new carboard box instead of the plastic tubes.

flemingmras · Post by **flemingmras** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:37 am

No, it's Aspen Pittman's way of making you think the grid windings are made of 24K gold so he can charge $5,000 more for his tubes.

Jon