Best place to get new tubes...

...is?
I have to order all new tubes for my SVT CL and I was wondering if you, in your collective wisdom, know of the cheapest place to order them online. Please help. I'm poor from blowing all my money on gear in the first place, so saving a little on this end would really help me out. Thanks guys and gals.

 

Well, I don't have $250 LAYING AROUND per se, but I can could come up with it. I was HOPING for a better deal than THAT. My amp guy will do it for a little over $200, including labor. I know that a great deal already, but I'm thinking if I can find tubes at the price he's paying, I can save the labor costs and just do it myself. Anybody?

 

yeah. the SVT CL makes doing it REALLY simple.

 

Yes. I'm aware of these things. Thank you though. I'm just looking for a site where I can shop for my own tubes, and therefor save some labor costs.

 

The preamp tubes are fine.

Just looking for a wholesaler or website where I can get 6 6550C-WC tubes on the cheap. Anybody?

C'mon... Someone here knows. Help out your brother bass players.

 

thanks. I'll check em out.

BTW - The cheapest I've found so far is $204 (other than on Ebay), which seems pretty good. Ebay is cheaper, but I'm skeptical about buying 'new' tubes on Ebay for obvious reasons.

 

that's what I'll most likely do, but I fully capable of swapping tubes out myself. I'm all about saving money these days. If I can find them any cheaper, I'll just do it myself and save whatever I can (which'll go straight into the gas tank )

The only reason I would ever take it anywhere for something this simple is a situation like this, where parts and labor cost the same as buying parts and doing it myself. I'm the type of guy who would rather do it myself (if i can). You learn more in life handling your own problems as opposed to paying someone else to handle them for you, no?

 

And to Baird6869... Doing things yourself is NEVER a waste of time IMHO. Especially if the alternative is paying someone else to do something your fully capable of (and would actually enjoy) doing.

I don't know about you guys, but I've definitely got enough time in my schedule to swap some tubes out.

I mean, if we've got time to sit around on talkbass, we've got the time. AM I RIGHT OR AM I RIGHT?

 

simple. Cause I blew one. If I had a digital camera, I'd be happy to show you. I also bought the head used, so the tubes were fairly old on top of that. Time for new tubes.
As an aside, I also had the fan go out on me at one point. I caught it before any real heat damage happened, and it was easy enough to fix. Now that we're on the topic, I'm wonderin how much I would have had to pay to have someone else service it?
Too much.