Vintage Valves

Mullard Valves in the mid 20th century

Mullard valves boxes are familiar to folks. The NOS valves and the modern re-creations are in blue boxes with black /pink. The NOS ones will have a price on the box – typically “11/- + PT.”   Yes this is the old shillings The valves were also packed in red and black boxes during the 1960’s too.  These boxes had no prices on them because they were destined for industrial customers and were sold by the […]

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Vintage valves for amps

Vintage versus New Valves

Over the weekend, I got my hands on a bunch of vintage audio valves and rectifiers.  I went through all of them and tested them and that blew most of my weekend.  Testing valves and doing matching is  a boring but very necessary job! Some were brand new in boxes,  some were loose in Tupperware containers and obviously had been used. I was curious also to see the test results of vintage versus new valves

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