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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: GM70 vs. 6C33C
Post Subject: Re: Soviet bad, bad, bad tubes ...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/15/2006

 Genn wrote:
However - you decided to use 6E5Pi to drive 6C33C, and the filed of competition in this case might be higher - including those E810F,  E180F, EL84..  or even 12AT7, or even (probably) WE 437.  Some of them would need higher input, but that is not a problem with pream. Were there any sonic reasons to choose 6E5P?  Or it is just a good engineering fit?
I dod not. The 6E5Pi is not good tube, too thin. My interest for 6E5P/6P [to drive 6C33C] was not because my recognition of it’s advantages over other drivers (BTW, none of those that you mentioned are not good tubes for my application) but rather because my specific interest to the 6E5P/6P. If any know to me western tubes would do the certain things that 6E5P/6P does then I would be gladly useing the western equivalents.

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