Vacuum Tube Snake Oil Salesmen

@ironrick6 

I did not mean to scare anyone away from tube amps. I have a Fezz Audio Lybra 300B tube amp in my main system that I would never trade for any other amp it sounds that good.

Just be aware the overseas dealers are often dumping their lower grade products on us thinking we will not know any better. But also disappointed with some USA resellers not accurately marking their product test results.

For anyone not wanting to spend $1k on a tube tester you can but a socket adapter that connects to a multimeter for $20 and get the tube current for power tubes. It is a little more tedious but you can see if the tubes are all drawing the same current (and likely matched well then). Those a generally used more on guitar amps.

@psvaneaudio  is actively ripping us off.

they have been selling duds and sending out fake test results for a coupla years now.

the number of times ive come across this suggests they just dont test their tubes. 

 

@calieng they demanded I smash the bad tube and send them a picture. Has anyone ever smashed a large vacuum tube with a hammer and seen where all the pieces of glass fly to? I said no way. I will throw it out or return it but I am not going to risk cutting my hand doing that. So they refused to send a replacement. 

Yes. Smashed mine, had to send photos as proof on a pair of 6SN7s. Note: They absolutely do not want you re-selling and putting the degraded tubes back out on the market. Its there policy before they will agree to replace any tubes.  So far so good on my end. Replacements work just fine past 6 months, so far.  Best of Luck. 

@calieng 

Duly noted, and thank you for the tube testing tips, I can do that!! 

I will exhale now.

edit: for grammar.

An eloquent treatise in furtherance of using solid state only.