Jphii, Re: And EVERY NOS/NIB and even old .....has sounded better, period". Remember todays new production tubes which aren't worth a crap become NOS tubes when everyone has forgotten how bad they were. Want some Sovtek 12AX7 WTB's? And they are military grade tubes! I've got a few dozen. :-)
tube manufacturing
Hi folks, can someone explain why the so called old new stock tubes are often superior to the tubes made currenly? Is it due to a lower quality standard of manufacturing these days or is it because people are losing skills necessary for tube manufacturing? I wonder: why can't we (with today's high tech manufacturing equipment) just copy those old Telefunkens, Siemens, GE's and Mullards?