by cartoonweirdo » Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:43 pm
I have had great luck with sovtek, but was using stock I purchased in bulk five or six years ago. They were all going into Vox product, and both the new Vox (made by Marshall, and a sight more roadworthy the originals at that), and vintage Vox (JMI that is) did well. I did, however have to sort through many sets to make the amps sound good. Sets that worked well in some amps sounded really bad in others and vice versa. At the time I had a lot of sets (hundreds), so this wasn't a problem for me. Overall I had very few tubes that sounded bad in all amps. More recently I have retubed with E/H (also russian) and had no complaints.
That's all I know, hope it helps
Carl