I'm thinking of re-tubing my Triple X head. Right now there's some Sovtek stock-tubes in it, but I'm sure I could get a better tone & sound all around if I would use high-quality tubes.

A friend of mine says Mesa (6L6GC) tubes are the best, but I've heard JJ Electronics are even better.

I know there must be some amp techs here. What would you suggest?

Thanks

Both the mentioned are decent,what kind of tone are you after?

Go with the JJ's I have the same amp.

Edit: Get the pre's too. It does change your sound with this amp. Those Sovteks are crap.

yea dude i have a xxx and the sovteks are complete shit, im going to buy some new pre amp tubes too, but watch out for EL34's, on eurotubes that mad scientist guy says XXX's and jsx's cant run on EL34'S. ( the newer xxx and jsx models anyway )

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What about Ruby tubes? Are these any better than Sovtek/Svetlana?

nope.

my favorite tubes overall are probably jj's...

for powertubes i have tung sol 5881's in my powerball, and jj kt88's in my splawn. i really dig.

for preamp tubes... i love and use mostly jj's, but for one of the gain stage tubes you gotta have a sovtek 12ax7lps.

most mesa tubes arent anything special imo. alot of them are relabeled tubes... all of which are set for a certain bias range so they plug right into mesa amps with no problems.


bob says alot of stuff does or doesnt work...

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