What are your experiences with these tubes?
I have several pairs. 1 pair in a 1957 Gibson GA40. It is a cathode biased class AB amp. Another pair in a Princeton Reverb II.
On the GA40, it is running 48ma @ 300V. Above 12 watts but I've seen cathode biased push pull guys run like this fine for a long time. I read somewhere that these new 6V6GT is rated at 14 watts? I am a bit skeptical about changing the cathode resistor value to play around with bias in an amp such as this. Lowering B+ seems to make more sense. But the GA40 has been up and running for hours now and sounds SO GREAT. I think this is the amp sound for me. It over took my favorite Vox 1965 Cambridge Reverb.
The Princeton Reverb II is a fixed bias amp and the pair is at 31ma @ 382V plate.
I suppose I can change the resistor value in the bias supply but the PRII sounds so good at this point. I don't care about having to replace tubes often.
I like the TungSol 6V6GT out of the rest of the new production tubes. I was just wondering how sturdy these guys were.
I have several pairs. 1 pair in a 1957 Gibson GA40. It is a cathode biased class AB amp. Another pair in a Princeton Reverb II.
On the GA40, it is running 48ma @ 300V. Above 12 watts but I've seen cathode biased push pull guys run like this fine for a long time. I read somewhere that these new 6V6GT is rated at 14 watts? I am a bit skeptical about changing the cathode resistor value to play around with bias in an amp such as this. Lowering B+ seems to make more sense. But the GA40 has been up and running for hours now and sounds SO GREAT. I think this is the amp sound for me. It over took my favorite Vox 1965 Cambridge Reverb.
The Princeton Reverb II is a fixed bias amp and the pair is at 31ma @ 382V plate.
I suppose I can change the resistor value in the bias supply but the PRII sounds so good at this point. I don't care about having to replace tubes often.
I like the TungSol 6V6GT out of the rest of the new production tubes. I was just wondering how sturdy these guys were.