Best Sounding EL84 - 7189

What's the best sounding EL84-7189 in a vintage amp?

jsman09-07-2006 3:19pm

elevick Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,439 posts 09-07-2006 at 05:26pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Tough choice. Fisher, Scott, Lafayette are all great. Personally, I like Pilot 245B. However, the Pilots are usually hard to find and ugly compared to a nice Fisher. Check out mapleshade.com They do restorations on some of these that will make you think very hard... Best tubes by far Telefunken 7189 followed by Mullard EL84
lolo Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 122 posts 09-07-2006 at 06:59pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Depends what YOU like - Listen to them. BTW- restorations do not neccessarily sound better than the originals then again they may sound better...Try the Eico hf-12 & the Scott 222 for starters
jsman OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 226 posts 09-08-2006 at 07:45pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I have a Scott 299a 2nd. edition, I had it restored a while back, time to update the output tubes.