SoundMods wrote:
Grover Gardner wrote:
The Tung-Sol KT66's look like 6L6GC's to me and don't sound very nice--constricted and plain-Jane. The Tung-Sol reissue 5881 is a nice tube.
Just as a matter of information -- Tung-Sol the company does not exist. The rights to the name was purchased by a Russian tube manufacturer. Any experience I've had with a Tung-Sol wanna-be had been under whelming. My Cary's came with after-market Russian Tung-Sol 6SL7s and they were terrible. Kind of "scratchy and grainy."Walt, that is not a fair assessment. Power tube quality is driven by a huge market, not so much a small signal 6SL7 that has limited (if any) commercial usage. Watermelons and kumquats. There is more effort and incentive ($$$) to build decent power tubes, as well as common small signal types as 12AX7s. Not much goes into replacement tube types that are not in high demand.
David