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Cool stuff. I've been getting into tube amps lately and there's some overlap between audiophiles and radio/tv restorers in that we're all after the same dwindli

• fuzzfactor 5y ago
  When this radio site was new I was just getting on the internet with Windows 95 and had been working with my surplus tubes and vintage guitar amps. I never stopped using tubes completely, even studied electronics young when tubes were still all there was for beginners. Transistors were only for one advanced senior classman at the beginning, they were too expensive for mainstream use and too easy to burn out. Nobody batted an eye about the high voltage for a pre-teen though, that's all there had ever been in the mainstream. In the '90's vintage guitars had already skyrocketed in value and classic amps were then starting to rise faster, but NOS tubes even faster than that. Especially after Ebay came out. So I had to get a few new ones, like it says on the Silvertine box "for that new-set sparkle!"