What's with BAT?


I’ve noticed that, over the last few years, BAT tube preamps have gone almost exclusively to the 6H30 tube. No more tube rolling like in the older preamps, such as my VK-3i. Any ideas as to why this has happened?

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Showing 2 responses by atmasphere

No- we rejected the tube as it had a lot of the same problems as the 6922 and similar. Frame grid triodes although very linear usually don’t have good microphonic characteristics.

New Sensor at the time made a pretty big deal about the tube- I think they wanted to sell some. But the guitar guys weren’t interested and it was a few years before we saw any product actually using them- and in that regard I do think BAT was one of the early adopters.
The Russian 6H30 was actually introduced to the USA by BAT
 New Sensor was sending us samples two years before BAT went into business. Just FWIW.