Where do you guys buy tubes?


Where is the place that you guys TURST to buy your tubes?

Thank you,
Eddy
eddy1
Another nod to Andy at Vintage Tube Services. He has an endless knowledge of tubes, tube components and speakers and is always willing to take the time to answer your questions. I recently purchased a matched quad of RCA 6L6GC black plates from him that have transformed the sound of my amp.....he matched them perfectly. Great guy. Great product. Great service.
Great suggestions above, pretty well covering the gamut of reputable sellers.  Jim McShane is the best of the best in my view.  There are lots of good prices from tube sellers on e-bay, but it is very easy to get burned there.  It is hard to separate the wheat from the chaff with some of these sellers.  

I have purchased from  Andy Bouwman at Vintage Tube Services, Jim McShane and Tube Depot.  All three provided excellent service.  
That said, I just picked up 4 Amperex 7308s from a seller on ebay (Elderly Electronics in OK) and both the seller and the tubes were excellent.

<Jim McShane>   I sent him an E-mail on Sunday expecting to receive a response in a few days.  Received a response in few hours later with recommendations.  Very nice fellow to work with.

<Kevin Deal>  He can be behind on E-mails occasionally,  but still a very knowledgeable and excellent to deal with.

I tried buying from Upscale.....four phone calls, I gave them my number four times...their salesmen were apparently too busy to help me out.... no return call after four attempts is pretty sad so unfortunately I can't recommend them.