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In the Thread: Forward in the past with old radios.

Post Subject: The Schaub’s new shoe – actually it is very nice.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/16/2011

A few weeks back as I got the Schaub & Lorenz I pulled the pubes out and measured them on my tester. The tubes were very week and the output tubes were semi-dead. The Schaub uses a pair of ECL82 tube in output stage. The ECL82 are triode-pentode tube and the Schaub use it as driver and power scare, one per channel. I think AN UK did the same in some of this devise but it is not important. So, the ECL82’s pentodes in my radio showed 60% of what consider acceptable and the triode section of ECL82 showed just 10% of norm. I frankly never had seen my tester to show so far from specification.

So, I ordered at that time a set of new tubes. I was shopping for better ECL82 but sine I do not know this tube at all then being a Frugal Jew I bought the cheapest tubes. For $18 I got a set of 4 Russian 6F3P - the Svetlana equivalent of ECL82. It took almost a month to get them and I toss then in the radio last night. You know, I ma going to tell it- it became VERY nice, I guess the dead tubes do count.

The tuner dropped noise hugely, the sound got energy and extension in both directions, the transients and articulation– everything got very much improved. The bass this thing throws is truly unanticipated and this time it is not juts gray mass of genetic bass but it in fact very pleasant sound. Also, it has some very surprising lower bass that did not exist in this radio before. I wonder where it comes from… I kind of begin to like this radio.

The Cat

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