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Philips Audio Tubes

(Valvo Amperex Mullard)

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Characteristics

Understand Codes

Common Labels
Label Colors

ECC81
ECC82
ECC83
E88CC

EF86

EL34

EL84

EZ80/81

GZ34

Other Tubes

Go to Sie/Tel E88CC

The E88CC Gallery  E188CC  ECC88  6DJ8  7308  Cca

     
   

  Many E88CC tubes left the Philips plants in the 50s and 60s. They sound very nice - do not compare them with usual ECC88 or 6DJ8, though there are some Philips types of these which are very close to those E88CC regarding their construction.

E88CC and ECC88 tubes E188CC and E288CC tubes
 

Code: 7L3 ΔXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- D getter

- pinched waist

Comment:

Very rare.

 

Code: VR0 Δ0A Heerlen

Characteristics:

- D-getter

Comment:

Extremely rare and very early type. Also found as VR1 tube.

   

 

       
 

Code: 7L4 ΔXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- D Getter

- red label

Comment:

Rare.

 

Code: VR2/3 ΔXXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- double stage ring getter

Comment:

Very Rare.

   

 

       
 

Code: 7LD/G/H ΔXXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- double stage ring getter

Comment:

Quite rare.

 

Code: VR5 ΔXXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- double stage ring getter

- white label

Comment:

Very Rare.

   

 

       
 

Code: 7L9 ΔXXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- ring getter

- red label

Comment:

Rare.

 

Code: VR6 ΔXXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- double stage ring getter

- red label

Comment:

Very Rare.

           
 

Code: 7L3 DXXX Hamburg

Characteristics:

- disc getter

Comment:

Very rare. Only E88CC type made in Hamburg?

 

Code: VR7/8 ΔXXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- double stage ring getter

Comment:

Rare.

ECC88 tubes        
 

Code: GA0 ΔXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- D-getter

Comment:

Early type of good quality.

 

Code: VR9 ΔXXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- double stage ring getter

Comment:

Very rare.

         
 

Code: GA? ΔXXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- D-getter

- Pinched Waist

Comment:

Rare, early type of good quality.

 

Code: VR1 RXXX Mitcham, U.K.

Characteristics:

- closed getter

Comment:

Very rare. Also sold with SQ label. Click here for another picture.

       
 

Code: GAB ΔXXX Heerlen

Characteristics:

- ring getter

Comment:

Common type of standard quality.

 

Code: GA2 B5H2

Characteristics:

- Ring getter

Comment:

Pretty rare from the Mullard plant in Blackburn, U.K.

E288CC      
 

Code: E288CC

Characteristics:

- D-getter

Comment:

Needs double E88CC current.

     
 

 

 

 

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