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

Post Subject: The General Electric 12AX7 tubesPosted by Romy the Cat on: 1/10/2010

miab wrote:
I'm about to place an order for some 12AX7 tubes. The GA 12ax7 tube you mention doesn't seem to come up in my search. Is there other info regarding this tube?

I am not sure but it is possible that General Electric never made tubes after 50s. The tubes that I had were GE but it I possible that they were just rebranded. Sylvania, RCA, Raytheon and few other made tube in US, the GE, Westinghouse and many other just re-brand them. Anyhow, the GE that I got came with very first ML2 that I bought. After many tubes I tried I replaced them with better German tubes. The second pair ML2 that I bough cams with RCA 12AX7 – I did not like them at all. I was running the MF ML2 with selection among smooth better plate Telefunken (they are all different – party by party) and bass ML2 with ribbed plate Telefunken. That was the best configuration I was able to get from a quad of ML2s.

I remember that among all 12AX7 contestants the ordinals pair of GE 12AX7 were at very top of the list of the tube I like with my MF ML2. They were no flashy and exiting as the best European tubes but they were very nicely balanced. I bought a few more of them intending to try them in my phonostage but I went with other tube in there.
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