Vacuum tube suppliers


mulveling  provided me some helpful ideas regarding tube upgrades for my Rogue Audio Ares phono stage in response to post of mine on the subject of power cords. 

[Roll NOS tubes. Telefunkens are a very good 12AX7. Mazda silver plates are even better. You can use 12BH7 in the 12AU7 slots (cleared with Rogue).]

I'm new to this game and wondering where to look for tubes. Any suggestions?
john_g

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I’ve used Brendan Bievers at TubeWorld for many years, though I got some NIB GEC driver tubes for my old Quad II amps from Tubemonger.
Brent Jesse’s web site gives me a headache. Heard good things about Andy.
I’m usually replacing ’small tubes,’ like the 12AX7 (used to roll the 6dj8 equivalents) with NOS Telefunkens, but got a matched quad of GEC KT-66s recently from Brendan; I have old stock Reflecktor D H 30s in my Veloce line stage. I’ve gotten back up sets of my phono stage tubes directly through Allnic, except for the rectifiers- which I’ve gotten from a variety of sources (currently using a GEC U52). The amp tubes, other than the 12ax7, come from Vlad Lamm.
I knew of Kevin Deal from an exotic car site I used to participate in but have not purchased anything from him.