This tube has a well balanced, colorful tone with strongly defined lows, mids and smooth highs. It allows for more clean head-room than higher gain 12AX7s. In overdrive, it is smooth and strong with well defined lows and mids. When pushed into overdrive it offers clean distortion with well balanced lows and mids. The JJ 12AX7 is well suited for all types of music and playing styles. It is also highly recommended for studio pre-amps and hi-fi gear
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Very impressed with the sound quality of the tubes and the price I have a project preamplifier high-end one I replaced the tubes one was making a noise there's enough gain for me the high and the mids and the bass are fantastic very impressed for the price thanks
Works perfectly in a vintage audiophile receiver (Fisher 800b). Replaced two. Sounds as good as I was hoping. I'm not a tube roller so I can't speak to the minor difference from other tubes. But it sounds sublime to me and the price is right.
Very impressed with the sound quality of the tubes and the price I have a project preamplifier high-end one I replaced the tubes one was making a noise there's enough gain for me the high and the mids and the bass are fantastic very impressed for the price thanks
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sound quality
Reviewed in Canada on December 19, 2021
Very impressed with the sound quality of the tubes and the price I have a project preamplifier high-end one I replaced the tubes one was making a noise there's enough gain for me the high and the mids and the bass are fantastic very impressed for the price thanks
Used this to replace a weak grove tube in my supersonic 22. This seems to hit the spot. It seems as warm if not warmer than the groove tube when it was new. Im a big JJ's fan after this purchase.
I like my solid state class A amplifiers, used with active crossovers to power some large planar/dynamic hybrid open baffle speakers. They are not as full coloured as my 300B, 6CA7, OR EL84 amps, but are much more satisfying for deep bass. A tube preamp seems to make the harmonics and structure of music, voice, and atmosphere more complete, yet still lacked much of the "bloom" of a tube power amp. Switching in these JJ Tubes was intentioned to lower the gain on my preamp, and increase its useable volume pot range. Surprise! These inexpensive babies restore all the bloom I've been missing, with an only barely noticeable treble exaggeration, easily compensated for by backing off the treble amplifiers volume about 2db. Don't be put off by the low price of these. I prefer them in a preamp over several at hand NOS RCA, Sylvania, GE, and Mullards tubes. They also better my Shuguang and Psvane Treasure and Hifi series, in terms of balance, and a soundstage I can walk into. These are excellent so far, and I hope they erase my past experiences with JJ/Tesla unreliability issues. Hopefully JJ will be way way more reliable. If so, they will be a tremendous value, and I will try out their 12AU7 tube to complete my preamplifier's tube compliment.
These are not well described - you need to buy the mg model of JJ's 12ax7 to get the real medium gain preamp tube. The S model is a good preamp tube - but with normal to high gain. You can refer to site like Tubestore or TubeDepot to verify this. Bought 2 of those because the description mentioned med gain tubes......it could be misleading.
Got this tube to replace a preamp tube that failed in my Marshall amp after several years of light use. These days I'm averaging anywhere from 1.5-2 hours per day of practice and recordings. I expect this tube to last about 2-3 years under those conditions.
5.0 out of 5 starsHusband wanted it, I was like wtf is this
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2017
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I bought this for my husband and I have absolutely no idea what it is or what it does, but he seems perfectly happy with it. If any other wives of geeky husbands are also looking at this, because your husband told you this is exactly what you need to get, then don't argue or try to understand what it is. It is a thing which has a function and it's best not to ask any other questions. Seruiously don't: it;'s really, really dull.
Excellent petit tube preamp. Son clair, détaillé et aéré. Je lui trouve un léger retrait des mediums sur mon ampli mais c'est subtil et cela lui donne un caractère. Je recommande.