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In Reply to: Why assume the Russians have no talent? posted by Gusser on August 23, 2006 at 09:39:41:
tubes or anything. Fact is that in most communist countries made a lot of rubbish. A simple fact caused by lack of competition from other companies. (but I must add that I don't think a lot of russian tubes are rubbish at all). I prefer my Sovtek 5AR4 over the JJ's (In both my JJ's I've observed what lookes like electric storms!!!)I've used Sovtek 5U4G, Svetlana EL34, 300B, 6N1P, 6H30, 6N6P, 6C41C, SV83 the only one I did not like so much was the 5U4G and the 6h8c (6sn7) look like crap. And I'm still planning to use a 6C33 and 6h19
To answer your question though...I THINK you have a point. I have a pair of Svetlana 300B's of which people said...good luck..the filaments don't last...but they have been working fine for over half a year nows. I constantly think...why do they still work...one thing I've been thinking is that they have been lying on a shelf for 5 years or so before I used them..maybe some stresses went out of the metals???
I think "aging" of metals over half a century does the same a cryogenic treatment does in whatever time a cryo treatment takes.
Obviously there are many factors at work though that make a good sounding tube. Of which the metal stresses are probably one of the least important. But still an interesting subject to me. (But I don't think we'll see any research to give us the facts any day soon)
To infinity and beyond!!!
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Follow Ups
- I don't think timb5881 meant negative about Russian - Bas Horneman 08/23/0611:56:33 08/23/06 (1)
- Oh I know that - no offense taken! - Gusser 14:12:42 08/23/06 (0)
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