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Article #4599Re: Nostalgia
From: John Reynolds
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 21:09
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 21:09
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> > I received a sales flyer today advertising vacuum tubes for sale! > Remember when you could 'shotgun' your TV with 6GH8's and 12AX7's ? > Does anyone out there know of any equipment manufactured within > the last 20 years which uses these things ? Musical instrument amplifiers, notably Fender and Mesa Boogie still use 12AX7's in their preamp stages and 6L6's in the output stage. Most of these amps now use silicon rectifiers, although some guitarists claim that 5U4's "sound better". John Reynolds NZ7J Tektronix TV Division Beaverton, OR
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!mintaka!ogicse!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekfdi!videovax!johnr From: johnr@videovax.tv.tek.com (John Reynolds) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Nostalgia Keywords: tubes Message-ID: <5781@videovax.tv.tek.com> Date: 11 Apr 90 21:09:03 GMT References: <908@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR Lines: 14