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Little preamp tube experiment


RichCI

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I just swapped out the 12AX7/ECC83 preamp tube on my 1966 Fender Champ.

 

Removed: old German made Telefunken

Replaced with: New Russian Tung-Sol

 

The Tung-Sol sound better to my ear; it felt a little looser and broke up in a smoother manner with a little bit more high end.

 

Conclusion: Just because it's old or vintage, doesn't mean it's better.

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I've found the same thing. I have a couple vintage Telefunkens in my old silverface Deluxe Reverb. I have tried them in a number of modern amps to see how they sounded. In each case the Tung Sol 12AX7s smoked 'em. IMHO, you can't beat the Tung Sol in modern amps - save the Telefunkens and RCAs for the vintage amps.

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I had some old 12AX7s too. Don't know if they were Telefunken, but they said The Fisher Made In West Germany.

I liked them in my Crate Blue Voodoo until the tranformer went up in that one and then I sold them on Ebay. I didn't care as much for them in my B-52.

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