Recent content by darth beans

Thank you stokes for that link buy the way!!! very helpful....I was scouring for that and hopefully you didn't clear out the N.east. Yes one of my questions was ....did they make tubes in west germany and label them made in germany??? The fact that they did apparently makes things very confusing.

Nah...short plate,no production code on the side of the glass on either tube.I'm sending them back anyway. I wish it was a long plate siemens....oh well!! Thanks for that link though.

I still have some questions.I'll save them for another thread..lol. Like I replied in the other thread....made in germany across the front of the tube in obvious brand new print. Most of these tubes say "made in west germany" as in ...Before the wall came down. If you are going to fake something...

It says made in germany across the front of the tube. ...Perfectly. As far as I know vintage Tele's were made in west germany.Well before the wall came down right???That was what made me laugh when the guy told me they were "early telefunkens". well an early telefunken wouldn't say made in...

Hey man...yea I got burned. Guy posted fake pics! That is what gets me. I know you have to have patience but I feel like a fool. Go to Ebay and type in "telefunken 12ax7" and watch what comes up. Out of 60 Items 52 are fake. It is obvious there is a ring of sellers who really have just popped...

uh-huh. wow I actually have 2 telefunken that were made IN GERMANY!!!! A rare item indeed!!!!! who wants to buy these treasures??? (didn't say made in germany in the pic.....cmon!) Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I THOUGHT I WAS A NOOB!!! Christ is you are going to fake something at least do your...

Well i was gonna post sooner and with hopefully better news.First thanks to Mav. for his kind response to my post and advice....and everyone else on here....Your posts and topics have given me hours of reading pleasure and insight. Especially mavguy,shredd and timbrewolf. So after doing some...

Let me add...lol. I can't say the invader relies soley on preamp distortion. If this was the case why only have 4 preamp tubes?? one which shares the clean/input stage. I love the clean sound...don't want to lose it. Right now I have a gtecc83 in v1 which i like...warmer,decent saturation good...

Allrighty...I'll try to make a long story short... After trying out an invader 150 through an engl cab(with vintage greenbacks) a while back I decided to get the 100 version. I'm still gassing for a mark5 and an engl steve morse to. I love this amp.....awesome clean channel,channel 2 is like a...