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Re: need info on this nos tube

Hi. I don't believe Matsushita has ever produced the 6922/E88CC tube. If yours is of the pinched waist type with gold pins, then it is actually a Matsushita 7308/E188CC. If not, it is just a plain ECC88/6DJ8 manufactured by Matsushita. It is a very fine tube--quiet and smooth. BTW, I don't know how this rumor got started, but Matsushita had no direct relationship with British Mullard, nor did it use Mullard tooling for that matter. Matsushita was actually licensed by Dutch Philips to produce a variety of small signal tubes in the 1960s and 1970s. I bet yours looks identical to the Philips/Amperex ECC88/6DJ8 of the same vintage. At any rate, $98 a pair is outrageously expensive. $30 a pair seems just right.


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