From ebarbou–(at)–etcom.com Fri Sep 1 08:14:09 CDT 1995
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From: ebarbou–(at)–etcom.com (Eric Barbour)
Subject: On the Vudu “metal tube”
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For the last time: the Vudu “tube” is nothing but a pair of
400v MOSFETS mounted in a metal can with a 12AX7 basing. The
gates are attached to the grid pins (2 and 7) via resistive
dividers, to reduce the voltage gain. They sound quite different
>from genuine vacuum triodes. Does that settle it?