On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:43:45 -0600, "Tim Williams"
wrote:

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
...
Tubes have always been proprietary parts. OK, you HP 200C has say a
6SN7 in it. Which manufacturer's 6SN7 is the right one to use?

Uh..!? Tubes from different manufacturers are _massively_ better matched
than any two transistors or ICs from the _same batch_!

Tim

What a pile of nonsense!

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