Cool Audio makes tubes now?

[culturejam]

http://www.coolaudio.com/products_vacuumtubes.html

I must have missed the press release.

[Scruffie]

http://www.coolaudio.com/products_vacuumtubes.html

I must have missed the press release.

No unit order prices yet so guess they're pretty new. No idea if Behringer has been using them in there amps for however long they've been making them or they decided to get there own line to cut costs.

[jkokura]

I'd bet they're rebranded Chinese stuff anyway. Like most companies, who get them ordered to certain specs and then brand them as their own.

But if they aren't, they are the parent company to a bunch of inexpensive and cheap music gear production lines, so I'm not surprised. They need tubes for tube gear, and they make their own rip offs of everything else, why not tubes.

Jacob

[atreidesheir]

They all look exactly like the Shuguang equivalent (getters, heaters, bases).  Decent tubes to be sure, but nothing too premium.  If you are happy with the price, they are a good buy.  Same tubes as most house brand tubes.  Groove tubes culled their tubes from the same batches.

The 12ax7 is pretty strong and sound good in high gainers and my favorite overdriver tube (2nd) in the Peavey Classic 30.  
I had the el34s in a 50 watt marshall head a few eardrums ago.  They sound just pretty fine and last about as well as the new sensor stuff.