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<blockquote data-quote="okstrat" data-source="post: 42887" data-attributes="member: 157"><p>Biasing cold (towards the low end) isn't going to hurt your amp, will make the tubes last longer and may get you closer to some amp tones like Mesa Boogies - they have ALWAYS been biased cold.</p><p></p><p>The toughest tubes I can think of offhand are Sovtek 5881WXTs. I contacted Bill Sundt at Soldano regarding what to retube my '95 SLO with - he recommended the Sovteks. They sound fine and should last forever and a day. Plus they cut power a bit, so you can crank your amp a little more and get your power tubes cooking a bit.</p><p></p><p>EL34s are just not super reliable. O'Connor shows in one of his books that the Traynor way of using EL34s made them last much longer than the Marshall way... I'll have to dig up my book one of these days and compare/contrast to the Randall stuff. Might be interesting, if the power section is more 'Marshall' styled, then converting might make the El34s last longer.</p><p></p><p>Pete</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="okstrat, post: 42887, member: 157"] Biasing cold (towards the low end) isn't going to hurt your amp, will make the tubes last longer and may get you closer to some amp tones like Mesa Boogies - they have ALWAYS been biased cold. The toughest tubes I can think of offhand are Sovtek 5881WXTs. I contacted Bill Sundt at Soldano regarding what to retube my '95 SLO with - he recommended the Sovteks. They sound fine and should last forever and a day. Plus they cut power a bit, so you can crank your amp a little more and get your power tubes cooking a bit. EL34s are just not super reliable. O'Connor shows in one of his books that the Traynor way of using EL34s made them last much longer than the Marshall way... I'll have to dig up my book one of these days and compare/contrast to the Randall stuff. Might be interesting, if the power section is more 'Marshall' styled, then converting might make the El34s last longer. Pete [/QUOTE]
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