The TechTube Blackburn E813CC: A New Approach to Tube Design

We invite our readers to a return to the past, when the original Blackburn manufacturing site where Millard tubes were once made, was shipping the TechTube Blackburn E813CC - an engineering effort to redesign the ECC83 dual triode, claiming more accuracy and more consistency. "The famous Blackburn MicroTech Solutions tube factory has launched the first in a line of audio tubes featuring the first radical re-design in tube technology in over 40 years," writes Neville Roberts in his original 2009 report for audioXpress.

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