Author Topic: Phwoar - new tubes (Read 1181 times)

hunter · « **on:** April 11, 2008, 07:03:35 PM »

Wow, I'm seriously chuffed. This all started a bit as a nightmare, ordered this rather expensive quad of EL84CZs from TAD (75 EUR the quad and lots of promise in the advert).

Then when I received them, I bent a pin of one of the tubes and it broke. Now it was great they sent me for free a replacement tube with identical values to the other 3 intact ones and it arrived today, so I put them into my Budda Superdrive 30.

AWESOME! What a change, it's suddenly so clear, big, transparent, harmonic, endless sustain and feedback are no problem, gain to max still sounds great. Wow guess this is gonna get a good beating up over the coming weeks.

Already played 3 of my BKP equipped quitars through it and each of them sounds awesome. This really transformed it into a completely "new" amp.

Recommend these tubes and TAD service to anyone who has an EL84 amp.

Elliot · « **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2008, 10:56:18 PM »

Does CZ mean Czech - i.e. made in the JJ factory? I say that because I had some TADs EL84C (which I took to be C for Chinese) and they were serious junk.

hunter · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2008, 11:02:51 PM »

Quote from: Elliot

Does CZ mean Czech - i.e. made in the JJ factory? I say that because I had some TADs EL84C (which I took to be C for Chinese) and they were serious junk.

I was thinking it meant Czech but not sure. They are good tubes though, the best EL84 tone I ever heard. Had JJs in my VHT but those were harsh and kinda flat sounding to my ears.

kellar · « **Reply #3 on:** April 12, 2008, 12:03:58 AM »

I had the Cz's for quite a while and they are excellent tubes. Just wait till you get them broken in. They will sound even better.
A step up from the Cz's are the STR series. They are also great tubes.