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  2. Recently disgourged tube assortment.

    in Headphone Amplification

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    any chance any of those tubes can be used with the sp extreme? most recent paycheck needs to be wasted on things i dont need but want.

    I am completely unqualified to answer, but after I've sorted out what tube types I have, I'm sure fellow head-casers will be able to make suggestions.

    Just out of curiosity, what do flying squirrels to when they infest your house?

    Rocky & Bullwinkle jokes aside, they do what most rodents do: make a nest out of whatever is handy (tearing up the insulation), poop everywhere and pee all over their nest. The end result is especially disgusting. Imagine a 1/4" thick layer of squirrel shit that is fused to the floorboards of the attic by their own urine. I spent an hour in one area, wearing a dustmask and goggles, scraping it up in chunks and then vacuuming up the debris. I still have two more locations to clean, I am not looking forward to them.

    Unfortunately, these two things need to happen in this order: catalog them, receive information. You don't need to be thorough about it -- start with just determining which tubes you have -- we will automatically start asking about the more interesting ones, and then you can go back and get more information about those -- brand name, markings, condition, pictures, etc.

    Yes, this makes perfect sense to me. However, I can only report the condition in terms of appearance. I don't have a tube tester, and the tube equipment I do own (vintage radios and some ca. 1970 McIntosh gear) is not suited to the task.

    There's an awful lot of tubes in the world, and not all of them are frequently used for audio amp building (there are exceptions, of course) -- I would put all those together and just sell them on eBay in one lump.

    I am sure a lot of the tubes I have are of little or no interest to audio snobs if I have one or two "hits" (as they call it in the antique business) with desirable tubes, I'll consider myself lucky.

  3. Recently disgourged tube assortment.

    in Headphone Amplification

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    In the ongoing battle against the flying squirrel infestation in my house (that is not a joke) I have been emptying out the attic spaces upstairs. My house has a Gambrel roof, that lends itself to an awful lot of storage space. That means after 33 years in the same family, there is an ungodly amount of crap up there. Mixed in with the other detritus, I found this:

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    Sorry about the lousy shot, I didn't have time to futz around and get a better one. My father dealt in antiques, including radios, and sometimes he'd get a collection of tubes. I am recalling some much bigger boxes full of tubes, but I don't know if he still had them when he died. This box might be nothing to get excited about, but there could be some cool stuff in there. I know exactly jack about tubes, but when I have a little time (hah!) I'll go through and catalog them. Any knowledge on their relative significance and value from the H-C cognoscenti would be greatly appreciated.

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