EL38's and EL39s? You can buy them in a one stop shop. Same UK seller. EL38 & EL39 Be aware that the glue on the EL39's can be delicate due to age! Check for lose bases & top caps and repair with superglue gel if necessary. Just apply so masking tape around areas you want to keep clean. There...

I can get away with the EL38s with the Meze Elites for most genres but I use the rectifier to help warm, thicken the sound… or lighten if using warmer EL37 & EL39 tubes. More recently, I’ve also found the ECC35 are very good at adding weight and warmth to brighter tube combinations while...

Yeah, I wish I had a box full of each 😀

Lol... yes, very good 😂

Lol... yeah, maybe not a skill that would get him far with Britains Got Talent... or any other country for that matter!

I always remember my dad saying that about the 9v battery... made me jump as a young kid 🤣

Stunning... beautiful colours and texture of grain. My favourite blue CO I've seen I think!! Congrats

Excellent… those Mullard EL33 look great!

When you say everything else, does that include the 274b with the EL33?

Thanks 🙏 The better half though says you need to add the word… “Old” before the goat 🤔

The last shot of the two amps together before I took it on a trip this morning… plus one of the seldom seen back 😀 I so wanted to add @L0rdGwyn name to it to acknowledge the amp design… none of us would be here talking about it if it hadn’t been for his vision 🙏

It feels so funny seeing it somewhere other than my office :beyersmile: So glad you like it and look forward to hear your thoughts on the Aegis sound. Those RCA Red Base 5691s go really well with the colour scheme 😀👍🏻 Makes the Envy look small😳 Edit... just no fiddling with the anode cables...

I really like that tube. I no longer have the Nirvana that I used it with but I’ve still kept a pair of them just in case. Going back to the Aegis thread, I do feel the ECC35 are similar but with better imaging… well, they’re better overall but they have that same Mullard sound!

I’ve bought the adapters with the view of using them with VT60 tubes. Other tubes will be a bonus 😀

Excellent… just working my way through the list of possibilities and seeing if I have all the adapters I need 😀 In the DIY thread, did EL11 crop up. For some reason I have it in my memory but not sure why🤪

Are the EL33 a straight fit or do they need an adapter?

Very useful info, thanks 🙏🏻

I think a some Aegis owners may have been focusing on other tubes and hadn’t realised the 807 & vt60 were an option… read that as I hadn’t 🤔 I order the adapter a week a go so no doubt I’ll have a dabble with some 807s etc in the near future! There are a lot of good options out there, it’s easy...

lol… yeah. I love the 5691s and made sure I had 2 NOS pairs due to the FOMO 😂 Funnily, just done the same with the ECC35s. Both perfect for different genres. So with 4 pairs between them I feel a little less panicky… but I may have to dabble again … just in case 😂

There will be a setting to turn on sound and when there is an electrical contact, flow, from one panel to the other it will beep.

Anyone watch Ted Lasso on Apple TV?!? Listening to the Aegis I think is turning me into Roy Kent….. every song is followed by (queue the accent)……. F* *k 😂😂😂 This amp just sounds so good it’s downright vulgar😂

That’s unfortunate 😞 The guy I bought the EL39 from said he’d replace it if I wasn’t able to repair it. It was a pair of backups so I needed to test for a few hours just to be sure they’re ok. The lesson learned was to check the tops before use now and preserve as much of the wire as possible...

Exactly. That happened when I was testing a new backup EL39. The cap came off the tube but there was enough wire on the tube to create a hook. I then soldered a skinny solid core wire to it. Cleaned the glass and cap and used some superglue gel to glue the cap back to the tube after threading...

Noted. It wasn’t something I was considering soon. Too many others to try first 😂 Thanks 🙏

Are those new production Tung-Sol KT120, KT150 & KT170 still ok to use as well?