Vacuum Tubes

[Ah Pook]

Anyplace still deal in them? http://messenger.msn.com/MMM2006-04-19_17.00/Resource/emoticons/lightbulb.gif

Bought my first piece of tube audio equipment. Always been interested but never pursued it.

Aune T1 DAC
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mazt2kpr9n1qettcw.jpg

Been doing some Googling. Not a whole lot of useable info on individual tubes.

These guys use E88CC/6922/6N23P Type 9 pins.

[rbeau30]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vacuumtubes.net%2F


Insert smily so noone gets mad at the humor. [ROFL3][Beer][Coffee][Flower]

[TFOGGER]

Radio Shack used to carry a lot of that kind of stuff in their catalogs before they became a glorified cell phone kiosk...[Rant1]

[hollohas]

Www.parts-express.com has hundreds.

I have purchased from them many times over the years. Never tubes, but a bunch of speaker building stuff and they have always treated me right.

[TFOGGER]

http://www.vacuumtubes.net/RES%20Audio%20pages/audiopage.html

[sellersm]

This place is in Denver: http://www.vacuumtubesupplies.com/

[Ah Pook]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vacuumtubes.net%2F


Insert smily so noone gets mad at the humor. [ROFL3][Beer][Coffee][Flower]

Guess I should have specified local dealers. [Shake][Tooth]

[hollohas]

There is a place on Broadway called pack rat antiques that usually has some older stuff. The guy that owns it is the crankiest old bastard I have ever met and will yell at you if you want to use a card or if you take your phone out of your pocket, but he has some cool stuff.

[jerrymrc]

Ya mean like this amp I built? Take a look on Audiokarma.org.http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac44/jerrymrc/audio/canning355Medium.jpg (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/jerrymrc/media/audio/canning355Medium.jpg.html)

[rbeau30]

Guess I should have specified local dealers. [Shake][Tooth]


THAT's IT!

You are OFF my "preferred trading post people list" !!!!!!

[sellersm]

Here are 2 more: https://www.tubedepot.com/

And locally, a guy known on the internet as LordValve, excellent resource, can seem a bit crotchety:
NBS Electronics
230 South Broadway
Denver, CO
(303) 778-1156

[cofi]

Ya mean like this amp I built? Take a look on Audiokarma.org.http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac44/jerrymrc/audio/canning355Medium.jpg (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/jerrymrc/media/audio/canning355Medium.jpg.html)
WOW Jerry can we get some details?

[Great-Kazoo]

Too bad Fistells closed. Mark, his sister and father ran one of the most comprehensive electronic stores in the country. You needed a tube for 1948 victrola, they had them NIB.
http://www.fistells.com/

[Ah Pook]

There is a place on Broadway called pack rat antiques that usually has some order stuff. The guy that owns it is the crankiest old bastard I have ever met and will yell at you if you want to use a card or if you take your phone out of your pocket, but he has some cool stuff.


And locally, a guy known on the internet as LordValve, excellent resource, can seem a bit crotchety:
NBS Electronics
230 South Broadway
Denver, CO
(303) 778-1156
Same guy?


Ya mean like this amp I built? Take a look on Audiokarma.org.http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac44/jerrymrc/audio/canning355Medium.jpg (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/jerrymrc/media/audio/canning355Medium.jpg.html)

Pretty! [Awesom]

Been going to Audiokarma, Head-Fi and Tubes Asylum.


THAT's IT!

You are OFF my "preferred trading post people list" !!!!!!
[Kick2][Neene1]

[jerrymrc]

WOW Jerry can we get some details? 50's Magnavox console amp that was gutted and rebuilt. 6V6 PP for 15 watts or so. I had a great time doing it and want to do another. I did have many mods and sounded very nice. Seem to have a knack for this stuff since I traded it for an amp from my past that in my mind was worth a bunch more.

[J]

Someone needs to tell these guys about this crazy new invention... the "Transistor"....


See it turns out you can take something called a substrate, made out of things like silicon or germanium... then you can dope it with focused energy, and through quantum mechanics and a tunneling electron phenomenon you can have this magical device. It works kind of like a couple of vacuum tubes put together, costs a fraction to purchase, and has a factor of 1000 greater noise, environment and power fluctuation resistance.

[jerrymrc]

Someone needs to tell these guys about this crazy new invention... the "Transistor"....


See it turns out you can take something called a substrate, made out of things like silicon or germanium... then you can dope it with focused energy, and through quantum mechanics and a tunneling electron phenomenon you can have this magical device. It works kind of like a couple of vacuum tubes put together, costs a fraction to purchase, and has a factor of 1000 greater noise, environment and power fluctuation resistance.

Ya don't get it. Just saying.

[Eric P]

I have to admit, I was going to say go to sears or other place that sells vacuums and see if they sell the hoses. Never have I seen or heard of using these types of tubes. Why would you use them?

[roberth]

Tubes are beauty for classical music. Rock n' Roll is more of a transistor thing.

I found a couple of bags of tubes at Brass Armadillo, my friend bought them all. Maybe check antique row on South Broadway.

[Gman]

I remember when our TV would quit. Dad would get out a pencil and masking tape. He'd label each tube and receptacle, and then take out all the tubes and put them in a brown paper bag. We'd go down to the grocery store where they had a tube kiosk. You'd pop the tube into the tester. If it was good, that one went back in the bag to go back home. When you found the bad one, you read the number on the tube and would grab the box with the same number out of the kiosk and check out. Go back home and put all of the tubes back in and had a working TV again.

[Irving]

Tubes are beauty for classical music. Rock n' Roll is more of a transistor thing.

I found a couple of bags of tubes at Brass Armadillo, my friend bought them all. Maybe check antique row on South Broadway.

This place is freaking awesome. It's where I picked up my Kristen pipe for only $20 the other day. Also, there are about 10 bayonets in case #391.

[Ah Pook]

I have to admit, I was going to say go to sears or other place that sells vacuums and see if they sell the hoses. Never have I seen or heard of using these types of tubes. Why would you use them?
Different tubes can "color" the music in different ways.


Ya don't get it. Just saying.
[LOL]

[electronman1729]

Check JB Saunders in Boulder, he used to have boxes of them.

[Great-Kazoo]

Someone needs to tell these guys about this crazy new invention... the "Transistor"....


See it turns out you can take something called a substrate, made out of things like silicon or germanium... then you can dope it with focused energy, and through quantum mechanics and a tunneling electron phenomenon you can have this magical device. It works kind of like a couple of vacuum tubes put together, costs a fraction to purchase, and has a factor of 1000 greater noise, environment and power fluctuation resistance.

Nothing like the hum of a receiver warming up, the glow illuminating the wall behind it. Then putting something on the turntable ,sss turntable,sss, turntable, sss, turntable.................

[O2HeN2]

Someone needs to tell these guys about this crazy new invention... the "Transistor"....
You'll never git it. With transistors you'll never get to appreciate the quality that tubes bring to music... The distortion, the non-linearity, the 60Hz hum. All lacking with transistors.

:)

O2

[newracer]

A little off topic, my father in law had a bunch of old tubes. When he passed we sold them all for a lot of cash.

[Ah Pook]

This place is in Denver: http://www.vacuumtubesupplies.com/
Did some looking on their website, last night. Going to try and make a trip down there next week.


You'll never git it. With transistors you'll never get to appreciate the quality that tubes bring to music... The distortion, the non-linearity, the 60Hz hum. All lacking with transistors.

:)

O2
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121001170155/playstationallstarsbattleroyale/images/7/7f/-i-saw-what-you-did-there.jpg

I grew up with tube TVs. Used to watch the TV repairman test the tubes. Had a tube reel-to-reel (forget the brand). That thing weighed a ton but made pretty good recordings.

[GilpinGuy]

[Punker][rockon]
Classic tube guitar amps...Awesome. "This one goes to 11"

[Ah Pook]

[Punker][rockon]
Classic tube guitar amps...Awesome. "This one goes to 11"
Because 10 just isn't enough.

[Irving]

Can you take a vacuum tube up Chinaman Gulch? Didn't think so.

[Ah Pook]

Can you take a vacuum tube up Chinaman Gulch? Didn't think so.
Maybe a good ole' Umerkin Phillips or Westinghouse could make it. None of those Chinese imports would stand a chance.

[Ah Pook]

Interesting vid on how tubes are/were made.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDvF89Bh27Y