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Offline jacobarber

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Is the Tung-Sol 7027 closest to the old originals?
« on: July 29, 2026, 11:45:53 pm »
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.?

 


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