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cv wrote:

I have some theories...*please* keep this tube safe, we will have to run some curves on it... More importantly, it's a good thing the output transformer wasn't damaged, though I'd imagine the tube would have struggled to pass more than around 600mA anyway

Yes, Chris, it would be interesting to expose this tube to some kind of  testing and to correlate it with it’s not-fried sister but it shell be done by not my mind as I would not be able to interpret the curves.  I have no idea what practical benefits it might have, unless you are willing to open a “tubes cooking” service. If you do them I would starts an insurance company… :-)

Sonically, the fried tube got a very interesting sound. The biggest difference is in a way HOW they approach HF – it is type Sound that I never heard in audio before. My “cooked 2A3” kind of enters the HF region “invisibly” and it is very difficult to say where the HF starts.  It is like you have some kind of MF pitch and in few seconds you realize that Sound moved up abut you do not have feeling “when” and “how”. It kind of very interesting feeling, not to mention that the HF themselves got WAY more extended and more sophisticated.

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