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In Reply to: RE: TungSol JAN-CTL-6SN7WGT tubes with Cary SLI-80 posted by 6bq5 on April 8, 2024 at 16:44:04:
They measure emission, or on better testers they measure trans conductance.
A tube can test excellent on a tester, but may be too noisy to be usable in a specific application, especially a high-gain circuit like a phono preamp..
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- Tube testers do not test for noise - Alpha Al 19:56:14 04/08/24 (5)
- This one does - Tre' 17:44:34 05/16/24 (0)
- Some claim to be able to test for "noise" - Steve O 08:53:10 04/10/24 (3)
- this guy tests for everything - elblanco 16:52:30 05/01/24 (0)
- RE: Some claim to be able to test for "noise" - Triode_Kingdom 20:13:51 04/12/24 (1)
- RE: Some claim to be able to test for "noise" - Steve O 04:59:34 04/13/24 (0)