Here is a 6C33C-B vacuum tube, a tube which is found in, say, Lamm ML1.1 and ML2.1 amplifiers.

In trying to accurately identify this tube, one might reasonably try and describe all information printed on it to somebody, say, over the phone.

This particular tube then, is the “6C33C-B ‘phallic symbol’ 81 with an OTX 7 in a diamond” tube.

At least, that is what I overheard people talking and laughing and wondering about as I was, as usual, hard at work in my office. 🙂

[OK, Neli wants me to remind everybody that there is something on both sides of the phallic symbol….

On the left is the month and on the right is the year of manufacture.

🙂

Me? I’m calling it a ‘rocket ship’].

[or butler, we are a equal opportunity exploiter]

Sung to the tune of ‘If I only had a brain’ from the Wizard of OZ – one of my mostest favorite songs

If we only had a maid,
We’d wile away the hours,
Relaxin’ with our feet up,
As they carried the [4 speaker, 150-250lb] Supremes.

Up and down the stairs,
They’d move the equipment,
And, why not, cable it up too,
While we laid around and snoozed.

And when the FedEx arrives,
and heavy packages do appear,
We can sigh and pop in a CD,
As they 45 steps do the lugging,
And we open another beer.

If we only had a maid,
cabling would be such a cinch,
this way, that way, and back again,
and changing the equipment,
would be no a sweating,
If we only had a maid.

A dusting and a vacuuming,
Around the delicate equipment,
would be no problem for our maid,
So no sneezing and no fingerprints,
will distract us from our music,
If we only had a maid.

And the CDs and LPs,
would all be so clean,
So organized and alphabetical,
If we only had a maid.

And when a lightning comes a striking,
They assure equipment is unplugged,
And when the storm leaves just five minutes later,
The equipment they would quickly power back up,
If we only had a maid.

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Needs work…

And we do have a maid. For the husband they are often called a ‘wife’. And for the wife’ they are a ‘husband’. 🙂 ?

We’ve been having this … discussion [funny how more and more discussions include phrases like ‘nuts’ (this is a family blog), ‘I married you why?’, and ‘OK, ask people on the Blog what THEY think’] about whether CDS *SHOULD* be priced at the same price as DVDs, [and with pre-viewed DVDs being so plentiful, more like two to four times the price I pay].

*I* say [and I write the blog so I get the first word in :-)] that DVDs are twice as long, have extras, and have video as well as sound. This should make DVDs four times MORE expensive than CDS, and that it is only our beloved recording industry whose monopoly has driven the price of CDs up to ridiculous levels.

*They* say [and Neli is among these sorely misguided people, poor girl] that we listen to CDs over and over again, whereas we only watch movies once or twice. So CDs are worth more because they provide more entertainment in the end. [funny, using this metric, ‘Kind of Blue’ and ‘Star Wars’ should go for $Millions. They are WORTH millions, but that value is spread out amongst the millions of copies people ‘own’ of them].

Anyway, on this blog I may lose this argument 🙂 But I think in the marketplace, people feel that $19 for a new CD is too much and are voting with their wallets by Not Buying Them. Almost all of us now have bought and made a data CD for ten cents – the rip-off factor is kind of in-our-face.

That said, I heard clips from the newest Steven Stills CD yesterday with cuts from the original CSN tapes. I think I will get ripped off at least one more time 🙂