Tube vendors.


Hello all taking a break from the kitchen rehab salesmen....
Quick question on Tube suppliers other than The Tube Store and Upscale Audio.
Who are you all getting tubes from and what do you like about them.
BestEarl.
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Brent @ AudioTubes. Great deals on NOS, but some are not so NOS but given the pricing, ridiculously good value.

eBay but ya gots to know what you're doing.
Matching is a bit of a shell game. The tubes are seldom run and matched under real world conditions which vary mightily between amplifiers. A match at one point may not at another.

For a well matched set, they should be run for several hours before matching.

Amplified Parts doesn’t have a single mention of matching as related to tubes on their website, so quite possibly are selling sets matched by the original tube vendor.