Friday, February 18, 2011

Western Electric WE300B Vacuum Tubes



Until recently I bought back the long missing ECC803S and 6211 (ECC802S) and immediate restore the glory of the line amplifier once I inserted them onto it...
But my output tubes is not WE300B, it is China made 300B. I know that now my amplifier has at least 30% room for audio improvement if I insert the four tubes of WE300B...
But that is very expensive.. I bought them at HKD$6300.00 a pair in probably 2000.
And Now I think it is around HKD120,000 a pair for the year 95, and 95 was the last year of good quality WE300B…
I had one pair of 95 and one pair of 97...
I am thinking should I change to single stage WE300B , so at least I had a pair running and one pair as spare… as I think that is quite hard to find again in the market.
I have seen one bottle 1950’s NOS , Mr. Wong was asking HKD$40,000 two years ago at Choice Hi Fi….
These are my Western Electric Legendary tubes, they have been used slightly.. and I keep it in box again….
HK Snob

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