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In the Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s

Post Subject: "Pinless" Tubes?Posted by Paul S on: 12/26/2009

Anyone ever tried the "pinless" tubes that have long-ish wires in place of the usual pins?

A Moscovite I ran across has Russian mil-spec 6AK5 "equivalents" that have pinched glass and the wires instead of pins. Oddly, Lamm lists the type numerically as interchangable, but I wonder: surely there are two versions of this type of "6J1P-EV" (actually, designation is Russian/Cyrillic...) tube, one with the usual pins and one with the longer wires. Then I wonder how I'd connect them, and how I'd kep them not only connected but physically stable, to deter microphonics and self-noise. Maybe the "EV" part of the designators describes the wires?

Maybe I should just solder the EV things in there, stop worrying about the lousy tube sockets?

Paul S

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