AC-15 Heritage tune-up
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:20 pm
After 3 years, the power tubes on my AC15 Heritage needed replacing, so I ordered the full set from Eurotubes.
It was very easy to remove the screws and slide the chassis out. I know some people have pooh-poohed the "stock" cheap preamp tubes, but they did not skimp on the Heritage series with the tubes.
All my ECC83's are Russian Sov-Teks
, the EF86 is unknown as it's dipped in Dynamat, so I replaced it with a JJ EF806. I left the stock pre-amp tubes alone.
Moving onto the old EL-84's. They were Russian made Electro-Harmonix. I replaced them with the JJ's. I was going to replace the rectifier tube, but the factory had already used a JJ there.
Fired up and she sings with the new EL-84's.
Now need to pick up the Silverface from the shop. It was time to change the original RCA 6V6's after 36 years
It was very easy to remove the screws and slide the chassis out. I know some people have pooh-poohed the "stock" cheap preamp tubes, but they did not skimp on the Heritage series with the tubes.
All my ECC83's are Russian Sov-Teks
, the EF86 is unknown as it's dipped in Dynamat, so I replaced it with a JJ EF806. I left the stock pre-amp tubes alone.Moving onto the old EL-84's. They were Russian made Electro-Harmonix. I replaced them with the JJ's. I was going to replace the rectifier tube, but the factory had already used a JJ there.
Fired up and she sings with the new EL-84's.
Now need to pick up the Silverface from the shop. It was time to change the original RCA 6V6's after 36 years