What about Ei tubes

[fatboy135]

Could anyone comments us about the Ei tubes????

 

[axwielding1]

Just my opinion... The Ei 12AX7 is really bright... I don't care for them much....
ax. 8)

 

[fatboy135]

ok I order a couple of them, to test it

 

[fatboy135]

after testing 4 ei tubes I must to concluded that they are worst than drugs.
No waist your money on that tubes, they sucks

 

[fatboy135]

after 10 hours of use one of the ei tubes has just become microphonics, what great piece of **** are those tubes.
:evil:

 

[Timbre Wolf]

after 10 hours of use one of the ei tubes has just become microphonics, what great piece of sh!t are those tubes.
:evil:

Sorry I did not see your post on Ei's before you bought them - I would have warned you about their high likelihood of becoming microphonic.

- T

 

[fatboy135]

:wink: I tested them, no more ei

 

[marci84]

Hi, i'm new in this forum, and also if it named "the boogie board", i'm a Marshall owner, and i want to defend the Ei tubes...we all knows about problems about microphonic...but the 12ax7 Ei (i only tested the Silver plate) are very very nice in PI stage of my jcm2000.. they can reproduce that sweet sound of '80 heavy metal.
I bought 2 12ax7 Ei grey plate, and they were microphonic. Dunno about gold pin...i think that they are grey plate but with a vintage sound...try ther silver plate, above all in PI stage.

 

[fatboy135]

ok marci what about an Ei swap¿¿¿¿ I give you mine and you gives me yours

 

[marci84]

Ehehe...i ordered 4 Ei silver plates on ebay...i'm waiting for them. When i will cheched them i will tell you if they are microphonic o no.

 

[Guitarzan]

Marci...
Try a JJ Ecc803 or a Groove Tube 12AX7M in V1. I have 2 Dual Rec's, both are the old 2 channel, and they come alive with these tubes.

 

[marci84]

My configuration now is JJ ecc803s in V1 (sound too bright), shuguang 12ax7a in v2 e v3 and a Svetlana s logo (like EH) in PI...with this configuration my dsl100 doesn't sound to harsh...but i think that jj 803s is too thin and bright to work in a marshall..i'm waiting for a pair of JJ ecc83s. I'm about to restore the default combination of preamp tubes that was when i bought the amp (Ei silver in v1 and PI, and two china in v2 and v3), with the different that i'm going to put 4 JJ KT-77 in the final stage. let's rock!

 

[Guitarzan]

i think that jj 803s is too thin and bright to work in a marshall

Marshall???!!! Why didn't you say so (you did, I just read it...). That's a whole other subject there. The 803's are great w/ a DR. The Chinese tubes work well with my DSL 2K 50W. I love the green channel on that amp. I'm not to thrilled with the red channel...hence the Mesa's. I'm also using the JJ EL-34L's.

 

[marci84]

i think that jj 803s is too thin and bright to work in a marshall

Marshall???!!! Why didn't you say so (you did, I just read it...). That's a whole other subject there. The 803's are great w/ a DR. The Chinese tubes work well with my DSL 2K 50W. I love the green channel on that amp. I'm not to thrilled with the red channel...hence the Mesa's. I'm also using the JJ EL-34L's.

ehhe don't worry! Who choose Marshall means that he wants a tipical hard rock/heavy rock sound, so i think that Ei do this work very well...by the way JJ are very quite tubes.

 

[fatboy135]

I still think that regular ei are the worst tubes I had ever tested, so I just purchase a elite ei to test it, there is the last chance.

 

[marci84]

You must buy them only if they are strictly selected....

 

[fatboy135]

I will test just now, take my breakfast, switch on the triaxis and just play it.
The elite ei is selected by pmc company, so the last opportunity before I declared my official war against ei :lol:

 

[marci84]

Unfortunately Ei is not passing good times in these years...i will hope that they will arise. Let us tuned on your news about Ei elites.

 

[fatboy135]

pufffffffffff so I decided that ei are definetely not my tubes, I prefer the jj or the "C" :wink:

 

[marci84]

Are these one also microphonic? or just don't you like them? Have they grey plates or silver plates?