Preferred Series 7025 tubes

[Doubleneck]

Just ordered some new tubes from thetubestore.com and added one of these on a whim, it sounds great. Put it in the PI position, has great gain, added a lot of clarity without being overly bright and tightened up the low end.

Highly recommend it.


Preferred Series 7025

The Preferred Series 7025 is a high quality 12AX7 tube type. This tube is a reproduction of the highly regarded and sought after Mullards from the 1960s.

This high quality 7025 is very rugged. The plates are manufactured out of a premium metal imported from Germany and supported with extra thick mica spacers to insure against microphonics. They are burned in and tested at the factory and then again on our digital high voltage equipment to make sure the tubes selected for you will provide outstanding tone and performance.

From a review: "A great sounding 12AX7 tube type that reminds me a little more of the ECC83 that EI made in the old days. That's a pretty nice compliment. I compared this tube against an old EI and Telefunken smooth plate and there was very little difference. Lots of gain with a rather low noise floor. No microphonics issues at all. Very good considering the large plate size. Spot welding may be better for microphonics than crimped plates. I tried it in all the standard guitar amp duties and it was fine. Fabulous in Blackface Fender amps. We tried this 7025 in a 66 Vibrolux reverb 2x10 combo and the tones were all there. Light and shimmering or really aggressive, it's all good."

 

[Anonymous]

did you buy it matched? what did you have in the original PI slot?

did you try it in any other slot? like in the tone stack? my next order will contain one of these..along with a mullard 12at7wa

i looked hard and long at the 7025, but decided to go with the recommended sovtek 12ax7lps for the PI in my tourmaster.

i also read that in v2 (the first lead pos) the mullard 12at7wa is a great choice .....

".............Mullard 12AT7WA (M8162/CV4024) in the V2 position. This is the lead 1 gain position, and the main input for lead 2 and clean modes. Beautiful lows and low-mids through open and airy present (but not obtrusive) highs will now bloom in your clean modes, and your lead modes will open up in ways you've never experienced. Gain will drop a little, but you can adjust your presets for that. These babies are the '70's and '80's versions (early '60's versions are more expensive and brighter) that are plentiful and available for $20 or less. A friend of mine had this to say when he tried one of these valves in his Triaxis "I must admit that last night I couldn't stop playing my guitar for hours. I had a smile on my face that refused to go away. Man, what have you done to me?" I'm confident that you'll like it as well."

i do a lot of reading over on the boogie board about tubes...and basically anywhere else i can

iknow the only real WAY is to hear them in my amp, but i plan on trying the preferred and the mullard.

 

[Doubleneck]

I'm using a TS in V1, a TS in V2 & the Preferred Series in V3 and I didn't ordered it balanced.

I actually ordered a TS & a LPS balanced to use in the PI slot and like this tube better.

The TS in PI slot was a little too bright, the LPS in the PI slot sounded dull.

 

[Anonymous]

hell
i'll have to try it there, matched maybe.
considering the improvement the LPS had on the PI in the tourmaster, hopefully it would sound nice.

i hated the TS in v1, most ppl love it there though. mine is fuzzy and dark sounding. not my style at all. but i may retry it.

 

[TC Don]

Preferred Series

I have them in V1 thru V3. Yeah yeah I know, but still moving them around from time to time and it is not set in stone. Just how it is now, and it aint bad.

Hadn't thought of using a Preferred 12ax7 in V8, though. Have a Penta 7025F in V4, Sovtek LPS matched in V8, TS in the rest. Had orignally thought the TS would be more prominent somewhere in V1-V3, and it still may end up that way.

 

[Doubleneck]

To be clear, I'm using a MOD100 so my results could blow up your amp