What are these voltage regulator tubes ? !!

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#1 What are these voltage regulator tubes ? !!

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Seen at ETF2015, courtesy of Thomas Mayer at Vinyl Savor :
http://vinylsavor.blogspot.co.uk/2015/1 ... rt-14.html
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d-mMzeT0rAA/V ... winner.jpg

Please tell me what these are, so I can get some.
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#2 Re: What are these voltage regulator tubes ? !!

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The small one is a Philips 4687 voltage stabilser - 93V @ 10 to 30mA
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Superb - thanks !
After more reading through Thomas's many postings on ETF, I got as far as Philips. ( I want the bigger one :bounce: )
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The bigger one is a 4357 - 95V @ 10 to 40mA

The datasheets are on Frank's site
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Cheers !
Nice, but not very common on EBay ...
Some of these found , but they are not as cool :(
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROHRE-PHILIPS ... _877wt_862
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I was there, and they are really weird in real life. And ultra cool.
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Excellent - didn't know you'd been there Jan . What were the highlights ?
Did you get a listen to Bjorn and Thomas's nice 200Hz mid-horn with the 288B ?
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Thomas and Bjørn are friends of mine, and we traveled down to Denmark together.
So naturally I spent the most time in the norwegian room.
By saturday night everything was adjusted to fit the room and we also were lucky enough to
have Charles King connect his Stellavox reel to reel player to the system.
Some of his tapes with live recordings of Count Basie were just unbelievably good.

Re the voltage reg tubes, they are really cool looking, so if you have the chance to get some of them, don't hesitate! :)
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Will definitely be on the lookout for those.
There looked to be some nice equipment there this year - good analogue front-ends for instance.
What was the data/drivers on those mad wooden horns on the 'House' system ?
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The "house system" was the creation of Il Bahnsen of http://www.bahnsenengineering.dk
This was his TV-system, believe it or not. I don't know much about the driver he used,
except that he used 6 ( or 8 ) 12" drivers for bass, a cone driver for midrange and a ribbon for the treble.
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TV system? That's just showing off :-). So, do tell Jan, we need to know - how did they sound?
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I'm not the best person to ask regarding sound, I' afraid. :D
There's some videos out on the net, I think?
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Chicken ;-)
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I just looked at some of the ETF 2015 vid's Jan mentioned. It looks like a great meet up, bit like Owston but without the funny accents! :)
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Some nice pics/comment from Thomas :
http://vinylsavor.blogspot.co.uk/2015/1 ... recap.html
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