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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: bigsbybender on October 05, 2010, 11:21:45 pm

Title: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: bigsbybender on October 05, 2010, 11:21:45 pm: Doug! Where are the 6550's in your store?

Are they not worth stocking anymore? (Too expensive?, Low sales volume?)

I'm planning on using some in an upcoming build.

j.
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: navdave on October 06, 2010, 12:05:15 am: I've never seen em in his store?
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: mresistor on October 06, 2010, 10:22:54 am: this place (http://www.tubedepot.com/6550kt88.html?gclid=CPPAzpfFvqQCFYXs7Qod8AyyzA)has them, even the new EH big bottle
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: EL34 on October 06, 2010, 03:08:09 pm: 6550's became way too expensive like all the Russian tubes did a while back.
Except that the 6550's are way more expensive than 6l6's and 6v6's

No one would pay that much for them
Just look at the 5u4gb sovtek
I have sold maybe one or two since the prices jumped through the roof a year or so ago
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: bigsbybender on October 07, 2010, 12:04:14 am: That answers that.... $36 for a 5U4 :huh:..... then I'd hate to see what 6550 goes for.
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: Geezer on October 07, 2010, 08:54:05 am: Quote from: bigsbybender on October 07, 2010, 12:04:14 am
That answers that.... $36 for a 5U4 :huh:..... then I'd hate to see what 6550 goes for.

They go for $50 a matched pair>>> http://www.tubedepot.com/eh-6550.html
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: bigsbybender on October 07, 2010, 10:43:01 am: Cool... that's a lot easier to swallow than some of the prices I've seen out there. $70-80/Pair.

Thanks.

j.
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: bluesbear on October 07, 2010, 12:15:33 pm: $50 - $70 might be worth it for bass amp or possibly steel guitar. They'd better last a LONG time, though!
Dave
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: EL34 on October 07, 2010, 06:06:02 pm: You should buy every one they have in stock because they cost me more than that, per tube.

That is if they are platinum matched like I buy all my tubes

Unles you are buying 100 of a tube, you can't compete with guys that stock huge amounts of tubes.
And there is no way I am going to buy 100 matches pairs of a tube that sells as little as 6550's do.
I sell 100 6L6's to every 6550 sold

Here's the current New Sensor wholesale market pricing on 6550eh's with platinum matching
The prices are for each tube, not a pair.
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: John on October 07, 2010, 07:58:33 pm: Doug, it sounds like you follow the same rule that I do: sell what 90% of the people want to buy. :wink:
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: prs_matt on October 07, 2010, 10:22:45 pm: It's not just big bottles that are ridiculously priced. I had a friend call me to order some 12AX7s and thought he had to have Groove Tubes as that is what was in his amp. I can get JJs for less than half the price of the GTs. What's going on in Russia to drive the prices so high?
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: EL34 on October 08, 2010, 06:51:34 am: The Russian mafia is one big reason

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/business/worldbusiness/09iht-cheat.html
Title: Re: Where have all the 6550's gone?
Post by: simonallaway on October 08, 2010, 11:24:25 am: "ExpoPUL makes two-thirds of the world's musical vacuum tubes. Tuned in to the music industry's needs, Matthews increased sales to 170,000 last year from 40,000 tubes a month in 1999."

I am quite sure this forum and the knowledge within it's members has contributed to that kind of growth (or recovery). I wonder if the JJ factory is subject to such pressures.