Has anyone tried the Tung-Sol EL34B?

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Shredder has it in his QR and I have the Ruby BSTR's in mine (I think they're the same tubes). They're really nice tubes!

The Ruby el-34bstr tubes are shuguang tubes. The tung-sol el34b tubes are different. Tung-sol tubes are made in the same Russian plant as all the other New sensor corporation. Mullard re-issue, Svetlana's {Not winged C's], and a few more. Years back the American company New Sensor took their plans to court and BEAT Svetlana, out of the rights to their OWN NAME. So Svetlana became winged C SED. SED stands for Svetlana Electrical devices Corporation. The C is a Russian cyrillic S......The winged C's are made in the St. Petersburg russian plant and there IS NO EQUAL IN QUALITY.....PERIOD! But other brands are decent these days. Scott Splawn caught alot of grief over the JJ KT-77's last year and half the year before as JJ had a quality problem BIG TIME. Scott HAD to have a new tube, solid solution for this aggrivation. Enter Tung-sol el-34b's ....Russian made at the Reflecktor plant, Dependable as hell, very musical and the problems were solved. I talked to Scott about this very subject on the phone yesterday. Funny thing about the Tung-sol tubes, Pre and power. Alot of guys all say the same thing Capulin Overdrive say's.. They sound great in some amps and not so great in others. But the price is very reasonable. I am gonna try them in something soon. But I am gonna try the pre's/ 12ax-7's 1st. Then the power tube set. Right now what I am hearing from alot of amp techs is JJ has gotten the KT-77's straightened up, but now the el-34's that JJ is sending out SUCK, problematic just like the kt-77's last year and before. WINGED C'S FTW!!!!!!

yep, i defenantly beleave and trust in the =C=! so much so, that i got to where i had them in Everything! 6L6, KT-88, EL-34 didn't matter they're all great! guess Peter Diezel is now shipping amps with the SED =C= 6550.


but yea, i think New Sensor has thier shit together now, because they're cranking out some nice tubes. EH 6CA7, Tung-sol EL-34B, etc.

I agree with this statement 100 percent. But there is something about buying those New sensor Svetlana's that to me comes across as WRONG, like if I buy them when I walk out the door of the store I will get heckled, some guy shouting 'SELL OUT, SELL OUT" cause there is ONLY 1 REAL SVETLANA. I mean DAMN, they should atleast get their own FK'N name.

guess the newer Svetlana's are the tubes to put in the now new VHT!

That's dead-on ......
OUUCH! I guess un-original clingers should learn to take a punch. The new VHT, Svetlana, err New sensor, the Easter fk'n Bunny, it's all hippy hoppy bullsh@T. A TOAST .....To Winged C's .. Like some famous dead dude said" what's in a name?" Stand for who YOU are, and what YOU do!