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Title: current production el34 tubes
Post by: duke of earl on August 07, 2011, 09:22:47 pm

Looking to build a 50 watt with these tubes. Anyone try the electro-harmonix version el34's? I hear the Winged C's sound really good in Marshall style amps.

Title: Re: current production el34 tubes
Post by: TubeGeek on August 09, 2011, 01:36:39 am

EH's are solid and robust.

I like the winged c's...been using them for the past few years with no problems.

I would like to give the reissue tung-sol's and mullard's a try soon.

my 2 cents

Title: Re: current production el34 tubes
Post by: Tone Junkie on August 09, 2011, 11:34:12 am

I havnt tried the EH,s but I changed out my JJ,s for winged C,s and the differance was night and day, I really like the sound of them I just wish they didnt cost twice as much.
Bill

Title: Re: current production el34 tubes
Post by: rzenc on August 09, 2011, 02:07:51 pm

I used "C" and JJ and they are still working good no problems to report. It's almost 5 years without any strange failure...Also had great results with 6CA7 EH.

Best Regards

Rzenc

Title: Re: current production el34 tubes
Post by: SoundmasterG on August 10, 2011, 12:14:44 am

I like the Winged C a lot myself. I've also had great luck with the JJ KT77's. YMMV.

Greg

Title: Re: current production el34 tubes
Post by: Tone Junkie on August 10, 2011, 03:07:44 pm

Greg what were your thoughts on the kt77,s compared to el34,s or what tonal differance did you here between the two.
Thanks Bill

Title: Re: current production el34 tubes
Post by: jojokeo on August 12, 2011, 12:47:48 pm

In my limited experience w/ the JJ-77 I like it a lot also but I'm only using it in my SE design. It's got a really nice quality of overdriving juicy tone to it and also a sweet pure clean tone too.

Title: Re: current production el34 tubes
Post by: bigsbybender on August 13, 2011, 12:38:42 am

I've been using the EH ones for stuff lately. I have them in my home Hi-Fi that I built for 6550 but rebiased and used EL34 and liked the result. 
I've had JJ in my Plexi-ish amp for years, no problems, good tone.

About 6 Months ago I ended up with some KT77's from JJ.  I've tried them in a Marshall 2204 and a Peavey Windsor. I really like them.

Long Story short. I've had pretty good luck with most EL34 types. I remember about 15 years ago when the EL34 was becoming scarce and I worried about the future of them. Some of the early mods I learned was to set up Marshalls for 6L6 just in case. I'm sure glad there are several choices of EL34 now..


j.

Title: Re: current production el34 tubes
Post by: SoundmasterG on August 16, 2011, 11:14:27 pm

Quote from: Tone Junkie on August 10, 2011, 03:07:44 pm

Greg what were your thoughts on the kt77,s compared to el34,s or what tonal differance did you here between the two.
Thanks Bill

Hi Bill,

I haven't directly compared the JJ KT77 against JJ EL34's in the same amp, but overall the KT77 is like combining the best of EL34's and 6L6's to my ears. They have a thicker bottom end yet still break up nicely and compress nicely. I like them a lot.

Greg