Hey Aaron, yes, I really like them, I just recieved my new set. I bought them from George Lenz at Tubes USA on Wednesday and recieved them today. Letting them warm up now.
Hi Ed:
How are your new Elrog 300Bs doing? Here's my saga:
In November of 2015 I purchased a pair of like new Elrog 300Bs from a dentist in the Toronto area. The tubes did indeed look and test like new. I really like their sound. Over the last year, I alternated between them and a pair of reissue WE 300Bs in my Paramounts. I slightly preferred the Elrogs over the WEs and they got the majority of playing time (approx. 60% vs. 40% for the WE 300Bs).
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago... I was listening to the Elrogs and heard a static-like noise from the right channel for about 5 seconds. It went away and continued to play fine but I shut off the system. I wasn't sure if it was the Elrog, a driver tube or just a tube socket connection.
The next day, I swapped the Elrogs to opposite amps and they played fine for about 30 minutes. Then, the one in question stopped playing, so I shut off the system. The next day I tested them and was horrified to see that the bad one was indeed dead and the "good" one tested at 50 (Where 58 is the minimum good level).
I recently went back to the Canuck Audio Mart ad for the pair I purchased. Quoting directly from the ad (seller's caps): "THESE ARE THE SECOND GENERATION, IMPROVED OVER THE FIRST GENERATION AND FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH HIGHER PLATE VOLTAGE AMPS SUCH AS...".
I never would have bought them otherwise! Originally, I thought the test report date was from 2015 but now I realize it was probably written in European date format (DD.MM.YY). If correct, they are from July 15, 2014 (15.7.14). That's seems very early to be the improved version. Also, I believe the serial numbers are fairly low (C1025 and C1039).
Gerry
