Fake Telefunken ECC83

The lower two are fake ECC83 tube that friend of mine showed me....

There is no <> mark on the bottom of the tube.

The logo is silkscreen printed with permanent pigment, the genuine one was made with powder printing which can be easily removed by rubbing on it. So the real one has a inomplete printing of ECC83 logo whereas the fake one has a more complete and beautiful Logo!

I head that some of the fake one even can make a <> mark at the bottom. So you have to be exercise with care when you buy the vacuum tube. The best is asking some expert to check the construction of the plate and getter inside...or buying from a reliable source.

Feverip

Telefunken EL84 (7189)

I had bought some EL84 some 6 year ago, It was HKD$400 a piece. Now I think we can only buy it at HKD$900 a piece.

I have 8 pieces Telefunken and some EL84 made in Eastern Germany in 1970. They are all NOS.

HK Snob!

Telefunken ECC802S

This is an early version of Telefunken ECC82 and I think it has a better life time and sweet tone than ECC802S.

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Mullard ECC32 NOS Tube

I have collected some 20 pcs... Now I have only a few pieces.

NOS from Mullard...

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Western Electric WE300B Power Vacuum Tube

The WE300B is a vacuum tube with a long history of high performance and great sound. The current generation of the 300B is receiving praise from a wide range of listeners and amplifier producers alike.

Oringally designed by Bell lab for Audio amplifier in the theatre in 1937 to 1988, and Western Electric used the old materil to run the production from 1992-2000, The last best tube using old material was with date code 1996. Afterwards those tubes will not be as good as the old one

My one was bought from Western Electric HK Agent Audiotronics 1996.

One pair is 1995, and one pair is 1997. I keep it on boxes

WE300B tube amp is so far the best audio amplifer in terms of audio reproduction with true hi fedility.

I like WE300B...

Feverip

The Best tubes with my rating

From my 25 years experince in vacuum tube collection I think these are the best bottles

12AX7, 7729, ECC83

1. Telefunken ECC83- 99

2. Raytheon 1957 7729 Gold Pin- 95

3. Telefunken ECC83 Long rib Plate- 93

Marconi 339 -93

4. Telefunken ECC83 Long Smooth Plate-92

Mullard 12AX7 Long plate-92

Bugle Boy 12AX7 D-getter-92

5. Bugle Boy 12AX7 round getter-91

6DJ8, E88CC, 6922

1. Telefunken CCa - 98

2. PQ Bugle Boy Gold Pin D-getter-96

3. Telefunken E88CC -95

4. Bugle Boy 6DJ8 D-getter-93

5. Bugle Boy 6DJ8 Large Round getter-92

Note the rating is purely my preferrence base on my Audio gear, there may have different rating if you have different preferrence in type of music and equipment under test.

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New Old Stock ECC83 from Telefunken

This is some of the 40 bottles I bought last year from a Audio repairman in Ap Liu Street 2008,

He still have another 10 bottles, they are NOS, they are long smooth plate.

The printing is perfect, some of them are Pink Printing and some are white. The bottom row are all pink printing!

It was made in 1960-1970, I cannot trace when they are made but I know someone has the date code information of the tubes!

The Price was HKD600.00 a piece.

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The Most Powerful Vacuum Tube for Preamp

These are telefunken ECC803S whcih was developed for small signal, to be used on an aircraft for it good performance in Signal to Noice ratio and superb stability against Microphonic vibration.

It is a direct replacement of 12AX7.

It was cheap in 20 years ago and now it has been asking like gold, in the website, you can hardly seen one anymore, even though, the pirce is high around USD$500.00

I had 20 piecse and I had been selling a lot to he Hi Fi Dealer and Shops in Hong Kong...

Now I am using Mullard 12AX7, Raytheon 1957 gold pin 7729, the Gold Pin 7729 Raytheon are even harder to find.

I still have a lot of Telefunken ECC802S, ECC801S and CCa.

If you had a chance to see one of these Great Bottlke, don't let it go... It is a piece of GEM!

Audition on amplifier using Telefunken ECC803S...

Super Quiet, that makes the vocal stands out, and the mouth of the singer is not big, with the right size!

Super wide response...

Super Flat response

Super Stable

Super Long life time... I have been using one pair on my Audio Space Preamp special made by Audio Space for about 6,000 hours, and I took them to check at Tube tester, the specification did not change anything at all when It was tested 6 years ago!!

So this is another type of CHEAP vacuum tube!

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