Anyone heard of these valves before?

Bainzy · Post by **Bainzy** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:47 pm

I can't say I've ever heard of the brand:

Dai H. · Post by **Dai H.** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:27 pm

those are Chinese tubes

Bainzy · Post by **Bainzy** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:03 pm

That figures - "SUPER" stands out a bit as a typical slogan an oriental product would have

JD · Post by JD » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:11 pm

Dai H. wrote:those are Chinese tubes

I agree, they appear to have the same construction of unbranded Chinese mfg tubes I have.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:30 pm

Any preamp tube with that shiny metal inside is obviously offshore stuff! Good Euro and US stuff has only coated plate materials.

novosibir · Post by **novosibir** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:58 pm

Anonymous wrote:Any preamp tube with that shiny metal inside is obviously offshore stuff! Good Euro and US stuff has only coated plate materials.

No! The plates as far as I can see are grey, what means coated.

Larry

Shredder · Post by **Shredder** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:13 pm

That was me; I meant that most all old-style Euro/US tubes' internal plate materials were fully coated (except for maybe some structural parts). Tubes above have some cheapo shiny stuff on their plates that I've never seen on vintage tubes!!!

novosibir · Post by **novosibir** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:04 pm

Shredder wrote:Tubes above have some cheapo shiny stuff on their plates that I've never seen on vintage tubes!!!

The shiny stuff are the plate cooling fins (absolutely not needed in any 12AX7), which already always have been on the chinese 12AX7, already as it still has been the exclusively "Boogie" tube.

Larry

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:18 pm

You mean Messy Booger?