EF86 Favourite choices

[adeep42]

Aarons, Pauls and other tube rollers,

Spent a lot of time tube rolling during the past few days All the stock tubes have been replaced. This is not to say my Eros did not sound     terrific in stock form. It just sounds terrificer now.

The Telefunken Chrome Plate Red Tops are still in. Tried the Butt Ugly 1964 Amperex EF86 from Brent Jesse but prefer the Dutch made RCA I was running earlier. 12BH7 is now NOS RCA.

Great fun but I'm determined to leave things alone now. It's just that good!

Alan

[BNAL]

Alan,

Did you mean the butt ugly 6DJ8?

I'm thinking of picking up some different 6DJ8 variants to try and reading about others preferences are help. I'm running the 6N23P-EV tubes I had on hand. Don't have any other tubes to use in that spot.

I wired my Eros for the 6BR7, so I'm limited to one manufacturer.

Brad, the one and only.

[ALL212]

Isn't Brad a car?   

I've got some E80F's on order from the 'bay.  Will be a few weeks before they get here from someplace far far away.

I tried an Amperex 6922 white label - didn't like it as much as the Siemens 6922 that I've left in.  I've got a bucket of single 6DJ8's to go through also.  Some I know are bum tubes but some should be ok.

[adeep42]

Yes Brad, my mistake, did mean 6DJ8. All these letters and numbers, it's just too much for my feeble aged brain. Telefunkens are EF86's.

[Paul Birkeland]

Great fun but I'm determined to leave things alone now. It's just that good!

Yeah, come to think of it, I haven't changed the tubes in my Tube Phono is about seven years!