I had bought four Gold Lion E88CC gold pin tubes for another who had one of my tube preamps and wanted to upgrade it. They decided not to upgrade and I got stack with the tubes. They remained unopened for the last 25 years until a few days back. I had most parts on hand to build a whole preamp from scratch and use these very nice tubes. And here it is. Colour is Deep Indian Red epoxy. Sound is full bodied and appears very balanced top to bottom.

Comprises:

Hammond wood cheek chassis
Ceramic sockets
Silver plated fine copper hookup wire
Russian PIO output caps.
External DC PS
WBT silver solder
Alps Blue Velvet pot
Vintage style Vernia gold knob
Two selectable inputs
4uf PIO final HT cap intern

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