Hoffman Amplifiers Tube Amplifier Forum
Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: jacobarber on July 29, 2026, 11:45:53 pm
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This feels like splitting hairs, but I'm curious. I just recently finished rebuilding my Ampeg V4 and am running my old JJ 6L6GCs because they're plenty healthy and bias is dead on.
But I saw that Tung-Sol is reproducing 7027s and claim the proper 35w plate dissipation vs JJ's 30w for their 7027s, which are just repackaged 6L6GCs with pins 1 & 6 back where they belong.
I'm not really turning this amp up to ear splitting levels, but I certainly am curious about getting it to its best original performance possible with all these shiny new components inside. Are these Tung-Sol tubes better in some way? More robust, etc.?