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Hi mkaramazov, These tubes made on the "legendary" Mullard developed machinery line, wherever they shipped them. (Australia, Japan, and elsewhere.) The machinery, therefore the quality stayed the same or very close as they were in England, Holland with English made Mullards.

The Philips Miniwatt 12au7 tubes are sounding now much better than the current Russian production 12au7 tubes. Although the Genalex Gold Lion and the Electro-Harmonix tubes are very close in tonal characters. The Miniwatts started producing a very balanced sound range and stage after about 200 hours working in the Sphinx3. In my opinion a lot depends on the speakers too. I have a pair of Counterpoints T128 25 Anniversary. Two way, bass reflex speakers, designed and built by Audiophile in Melbourne. Sweet sounding, fast boxes in every category of music.

Thanks for your reply. I will give them a go. Yes, the person I was talking to was working there and he told me a story about Hendon Works. When they finally closed down the factory in 1980, all machinery went to the smelters. It was a silly decision. Just look at the Russians, using the new tube revolution!

Hi MarcusD, I have two of them, have not listened to their sound jet properly. I rolled them in to my Sphinx 3 instead of the stock JJ-s, but they were soundig a little bit dull, and not enough treble. I changed them after few hours to the Russian, current production Genalex Gold and the treble came back. Maybe the Philips needs some burn in?

Hi, My question is, what do you know about the Australian made Philips Miniwatt 12au7A? (Please see the attached picture!) Many people say it is equivalent, or rather same as the Mullard 12au7, made in Blackburn, England. What I discovered so far, Philips bought Mullard and set up a factory here in HENDON WORKS, ALBERTON AUSTRALIA, which was a Mullard satellite factory. Shipping and using the English, Mullard machinery to Adelaide and manufacture these Miniwatt tubes here. Furthermore Mullard made the cathode assemblies using the Hungarian Tunsgram method and sent them from the Blackburn factory to Australia, because the Hendon Works had no facilities for coating cathodes. I've heard this from an old radio technician who was working in Hendon Works, before it was closed down. Maybe it is only an anecdote? Thank you. Kind regards, Bela

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