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Website Updated to make it faster and offer more ways to pay worldwide

We have been busy working on our website. Key updates are website response times and improved payment options in the UK, Europe and in Asia Pacific. We have improved our payments system to give you a lot more choice in ways to pay us. Our website will automatically present your payment options according to where you are located These new payment options are in addition to Paypal. In every country you can pay by Visa […]

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EHX Valve Factory Video – see how your valves are made

I thought you might like to see how your valves are made in the EHX Valve Factory. This is a video of the Electro-Harmonix ( EHX) valve (tube) factory in Saratov in Russia. This factory originally made the valves for the Russian military. EHX claims this is the largest remaining tube factory in the world. I believe it to be one of the largest. When you watch this video, you will see there is a

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Modern EL84 amps and NOS EL84s Avoid damaging your NOS EL84’s

It is important info for those of you who want to use NOS EL84’s ( 6BQ5) in modern amps and even not so moderns amps. There are several modern EL84 amplifiers which have wiring violations on pin 1 of one or more EL84 sockets. NOS EL84s have internal connections between pins 1 and 2 where modern EL84s do not. Sometimes designers of EL84 amps assume that pin one is a safe location for a “tie

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Unwell Fender Hot Rod DeVille makes full recovery

A Fender Hot Rod DeVille arrived as it was very unwell. I decided not to even switch it on but get the back off and examine the innards. One of the output valves looked like it had fallen from a helicopter. It had gone all white inside (due to vacuum loss) and the glass was cracked. The valve base had lumps missing ! If you load the van after the gig tell your roadies to

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More Shipping Options No VAT outside EU

We have more shipping options but simplified them. In the UK 2nd class post is free and we have added options for next weekday delivery before 1pm and Saturday delivery before 1pm . There is one rate to all EU countries and also to Norway and Swizerland and one rate for the rest of the world. For customers outside of the EU, we have set up the website so that VAT will not be charged.

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Valve Suppliers and Resellers, make sure you know the market

Valve Suppliers and Resellers (see note) When your amp needs new valves no doubt you will read the reviews of all the differing manufacturers of amplifier valves and what they have to offer. It appears that there are loads of different manufacturers but in fact there are only three main manufacturers on the planet. There are a few other specialists but they make so few and mostly for high end HiFi. The companies that own

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Phase Splitter Valves they do influence your amp tone

The phase splitter valve while it is a pre-amp type valve is really not part of the pre-amp chain at all. It is actually part of the output stage. When an amp has two or more valves then it operates in a mode called push pull. Its job is to invert the signal so that one of your two output valves is driven at any one time. This is a an oversimplified description but I

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