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In Reply to: RE: The most expensive 12AX7s - TFK, Mullard, GEC..... posted by andy evans on July 01, 2024 at 08:57:53
They are scarce! Hard to find tubes routinely cost significantly more than tubes that are more easily obtained - regardless of their "quality".
The law of supply and demand applies here. And if the supply is VERY small it takes just a tiny demand to push the price up.
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High price for rarity? Witness the very rare Swedish Standard 33S29B, equivalent to 6SL7GT. It has a very similar design to the RCA 5691 which the Tube Depot touts as the "holy grail of 6SL7 tube types" - but the Standard version is much more rare. Sellers offer it for hundreds of dollars up to $1500 per.
The sonic quality of the vaunted 33S29B? Meh! Just as bland as the less expensive RCA 5691. There are much more exciting 6SL7 types, offering rich tonal balance and clarity, to be had for 1/10th the cost.
Anyone want to discuss the rare 7729? 12DT7? Others?
I'm curious because I have one or two of them and thought nothing of it.
Obviously some mystique around them. I have no equipment that uses them so can't check sound quality.
Interested in anything else on the GEC ones.
...And the demand is being pushed along by bloat, hype and ignorance.
There are "investors" and speculators in this market now who look for reduced supplies of any product in order to pump and dump.
It's a technique as old as the hills.
They make fantastic and ridiculous claims in order to buy cheap and make a killing out of their crazy claims.
Some of us know the worst - eg. bangy-bang and much worse.
They are rip-off merchants, who often do their stuff thru E-pray.
It's funny to see people banging out stuff thru that site when if you know the proper merchants out there - you can get better over the counter with a guarantee in a proper shop - usually who has been there since the 60s!
Can't say it here. It would be deleted, rightfully so.
Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)
I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)
Nut-job pricing. There, I said it.
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