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Korg are making a dual triode low voltage tube.

Wonder if it is any good.


http://korgnutube.com/en/



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On 5/30/2017 4:13 PM, Gareth Magennis wrote:
Korg are making a dual triode low voltage tube.


Actually, that's old news. They announced its availability about a year
ago. And the radio in my 1957 Ford had low voltage tubes (and no
vibrator) in it.

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Gareth Magennis wrote:
Korg are making a dual triode low voltage tube.


It is reviewed in last months AudioXPress.

Wonder if it is any good.


The idea is kind of cool, but it doesn't look to be actually useful.
The curves are very weird, and it draws too much grid current to be
interesting for microphones.
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On 31/05/2017 6:52 AM, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 5/30/2017 4:13 PM, Gareth Magennis wrote:
Korg are making a dual triode low voltage tube.


Actually, that's old news. They announced its availability about a year
ago. And the radio in my 1957 Ford had low voltage tubes (and no
vibrator) in it.


And so do a few pre-amps that have been around for years. Generally
sound quality is secondary to simply advertising it is "tubed" :-(

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On 5/31/2017 3:21 AM, Trevor wrote:


And so do a few pre-amps that have been around for years.


That's not a low-voltage tube. It's a standard tube operated with a low
plate voltage to make it sound bad.


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On 05/30/2017 04:52 PM, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 5/30/2017 4:13 PM, Gareth Magennis wrote:
Korg are making a dual triode low voltage tube.


Actually, that's old news. They announced its availability about a year
ago. And the radio in my 1957 Ford had low voltage tubes (and no
vibrator) in it.


If you want some to play with:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from...utube&_sacat=0


And Vox are using it in an amp:

http://www.voxamps.com/MV50
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Paul Babiak wrote:
On 05/30/2017 04:52 PM, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 5/30/2017 4:13 PM, Gareth Magennis wrote:
Korg are making a dual triode low voltage tube.


Actually, that's old news. They announced its availability about a year
ago. And the radio in my 1957 Ford had low voltage tubes (and no
vibrator) in it.


If you want some to play with:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from...utube&_sacat=0


So, $50 for something with very low mu and hardly any current drive capability?
That seems kind of much to me.
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On 05/30/2017 04:13 PM, Gareth Magennis wrote:
Korg are making a dual triode low voltage tube.

Wonder if it is any good.


http://korgnutube.com/en/



Gareth.


A lot more info here, including links to the datasheet, and two projects
with pcb's - a buffer and a headphone amp - using the Korg Nutube 6P1.
I'm not affiliated, just interested.

http://www.nutube.us/

Paul


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On 2/06/2017 3:47 PM, Trevor wrote:
Things get cheaper when volume increases and economy of scale kicks in.
They DO NOT get cheaper when the products are crap, there is little
demand, few are sold and there is no economy of scale.


I should have added things do get much cheaper when production stops
because of poor demand and the remaining units are dumped.
Then they sometimes get much dearer again if nostalgia kicks in and
there is a demand for existing units.
What course any particular item will take is usually hard to predict.

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On 3/06/2017 9:37 AM, Gareth Magennis wrote:


A particularly strange rant.

Nevertheless, a great many users of tubes are inclined to distort them
to f*ck, because it sounds good.

Distorting a transistor or IC to f*uck sounds like a pile of ****e.


"Mesurements" are not always an indicator of what sounds good, you
should know that by now.


Gareth.



Might 'sound good' for an electric guitar. but if your objective is
'pure' sound, or sound modified only by what processes you have
consciously applied, then a tube/valve and (and possible associated
transformer) may also sound like ****e.

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On 3/06/2017 12:18 PM, geoff wrote:
On 3/06/2017 9:37 AM, Gareth Magennis wrote:


A particularly strange rant.

Nevertheless, a great many users of tubes are inclined to distort them
to f*ck, because it sounds good.

Distorting a transistor or IC to f*uck sounds like a pile of ****e.


"Mesurements" are not always an indicator of what sounds good, you
should know that by now.


Gareth.



Might 'sound good' for an electric guitar. but if your objective is
'pure' sound, or sound modified only by what processes you have
consciously applied, then a tube/valve and (and possible associated
transformer) may also sound like ****e.

geoff



..... but they'll always sound fantastic is you back-light them with LEDs.

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geoff wrote:
On 3/06/2017 9:37 AM, Gareth Magennis wrote:


A particularly strange rant.

Nevertheless, a great many users of tubes are inclined to distort them
to f*ck, because it sounds good.

Distorting a transistor or IC to f*uck sounds like a pile of ****e.


"Mesurements" are not always an indicator of what sounds good, you
should know that by now.


Gareth.



Might 'sound good' for an electric guitar. but if your objective is
'pure' sound, or sound modified only by what processes you have
consciously applied, then a tube/valve and (and possible associated
transformer) may also sound like ****e.


Purity is an illusion. Accuracy, however...

geoff


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geoff wrote:

Might 'sound good' for an electric guitar. but if your objective is
'pure' sound, or sound modified only by what processes you have
consciously applied, then a tube/valve and (and possible associated
transformer) may also sound like ****e.


It's clear that this device is designed as a processing element for guitar
and other musical production needed.

It's not clear whether it actually sounds like a conventional tube in that
application; the weird curves do not look much like those of a 12AX7.

It's definitely not useful as a general-purpose neutral-sounding gain device
(which the 12AX7 is if you treat it well).
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On Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 7:22:48 AM UTC-4, Scott Dorsey wrote:
geoff wrote:

Might 'sound good' for an electric guitar. but if your objective is
'pure' sound, or sound modified only by what processes you have
consciously applied, then a tube/valve and (and possible associated
transformer) may also sound like ****e.


It's clear that this device is designed as a processing element for guitar
and other musical production needed.

It's not clear whether it actually sounds like a conventional tube in that
application; the weird curves do not look much like those of a 12AX7.


Ah, a superheterodyne radio tube!!
So, who else was clever to bridge the tube radio on/off switch with a diode, enough to keep tube filaments warm for instant on sound!?

Jack


It's definitely not useful as a general-purpose neutral-sounding gain device
(which the 12AX7 is if you treat it well).
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