[NX211]

On Aug 16, 10:37*am, charles rollo charles.rollo.
wrote:
Recently my amps trannies were melted when the 211 failed. With less
than 150 hours on the tube but past the 30 day warrantee.
I bought the tubes in Oct. 2009 from Grant Fidelity. however never
used them until well after the 30 day time frame. Which Grant was aware
of.
One tube shorted and took out the output and high voltage trannies.
Costing me $1500 to repair.
Neither Grant Fidelity nor Full Music will care after the 30 days
expires. For $500 one would think that the Manf. or north American
distributor would make ammends because of the damage done. Something
fishy going on as the distributor.
No no and no is the answer from them. Buyer beware. Stay away.

charles

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charles rollo

I had a new KT90 arc in the base from the plate to the filament and
literally melt down with only 50 hrs on the tube. How do you explain
that to the guy you bought the tubes from. Not too cool.

Also had a new KT120 with about 75 hrs on it fail from a bad
connection on one of the filament pins. Then again, bought some JJ
KT77's with something floating around in one of them and it arced
internally with a big flash when installed. I knew I should have
immediately sent it back before installing it but I didn't - and I got
burned. These aren't operational problems with the amp but poor
quality control from tube manufactures.

Also bought some cheap Chinese 6L6GC's with hundreds of hrs on them
now and the perform flawlessly. You don't necessarily get what you
pay for when it comes to vacuum tubes.