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12AY7 - 6072 Gold Pin Balanced Triode

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Price: $41.00

12AY7 - 6072 Gold Pin Balanced Triode

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The JJ Gold Pin 12AY7 / 6072 with Balanced Triodes. We recommend these for long tail phase inverter stages which are common in most push pull circuits (most all guitar amps), or anywhere that a tube with symmetrical sections is desired.

The JJ 12AY7 / 6072 is a high quality low noise tube that can also be used as a low gain 12AX7 substitute. They're roughly 60% lower in gain than a traditional 12AX7. The 12AY7 / 6072 was used in many Fender Tweed era amps and are used in mic pre's and tube mic's.

All Gold Pin tubes feature internal components that have been selected off the assembly line and treated differently during the final construction process.

HIFI and studio users can expect increased bandwidth and a smoother presentation with the Gold Pin tubes.

All our preamp tubes are stringently tested for noise and microphonics using Amplitrex testers driving an external amp. There is no extra charge for low noise and microphonics testing like with other tube vendors. Additionally the tubes undergo a battery of tests for basic performance characteristics and faults such as: Emissions, Transconductance, H-K and Grid leakage, etc... If a tube does not pass our strict performance criteria it's tossed or sent back to JJ Electronic for evaluation.

We recommend these for long tail phase inverter stages or anywhere that symmetrical performance between triodes is sought. It also gives you the plate current and transconductance spec for each triode which is nice if you're trying to keep records or maintain exact consistency from tube to tube. If you need multiple matched tubes please see our "Balanced and Matched" option.

The Gold Pin JJ 12AY7 - 6072 is based on the same construction as the original JJ 12AY7. The internal components go through additional selection and processing during assembly. After working with the Gold Pin tubes for several years we can confirm they do test more consistently and sound noticeably different than the non-Gold Pin tubes.

The JJ Gold Pin 12AY7 / 6072 is a high quality, low noise tube built to classic 12AY7 / 6072 specs. Although this tube uses the classic short plate design, it was engineered from the inside out as a purpose built 6072 rather than a low test 12AX7.

The 12AY7 / 6072 is about 60% lower in gain than a traditional 12AX7. We recommend these in input stages where players are looking for more headroom and a cleaner overall amp. We also use them in specific stages of higher gain amps to tame and even out overdrive channels that go beyond the gain/distortion requirements of the player.

Keep in mind reducing gain generally has the effect of decreasing high end response. If that's desired checkout the standard 12AY7 as the Gold Pin variants will retain more bandwidth than the original non-gold pin tubes.

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