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. […]
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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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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In the “old days” UK mains voltage was 240 volts AC and Ireland plus mainland Europe was 220 volts AC. With the tolerances back in those old days UK mains voltage could be as high as 264 volts AC, so running an amp that was set for 220 volts AC in the UK could  mean that the amp was being run at 20% over voltage. That means your valves have a heater voltage that is
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We have introduced more new valves which are all now in stock. We now have the more specialised valves that are used in Ampeg and Peavey guitar amps. Â The Electro Harmonix 12DW7 ( also known as the ECC832) is a double triode and in this valve one half is like an ECC83 Â ( 12 AX7) with a gain of 100 Â and the other half like an ECC82 ( 12AU7) with a gain of 20. Peavey
We do sell on Ebay and our own webshop..  After all if Ebay is good enough for Argos and Tesco it should be good enough for us ! Ebay is a convenient and its a click with Paypal and the goods are on the way.  We are a premium power seller on Ebay  so we do well on Ebay.  Our user name is Vlavetubeguitaramps and we have an Ebay shop. There appears to be all