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Post Subject: Weird tag-team tube failure (with no consequences?)Posted by Paul S on: 8/14/2008
I tried listening for a while this morning, figured the electricity was not good enough. When I went to switch off the amps, I immediately noticed that BOTH 5651s had failed spectacularly, with cracked bases and "white-out" on the tops of both tubes, IOW, no vacuum. Weird, and weirder that it did not make it sound any worse than bad electricity.
I'd first suspect modern "value engineering" at its finest, but these are not modern tubes.
I would also suppose that other tubes got fried, too, for want of voltage regulation; but wouldn't that tell more noticably in the sound (which was not good, but it has been worse with good tubes and worse electricity)?
???
Paul S
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