audiotubes.com

09/11/2022

Our new days/hours of operation are Monday to Thursday, 8AM to 4PM USA central time. Our office will be closed Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. You can still contact us 24/7 by email, and make a purchase anytime by Paypal online!

03/22/2020

The State of Illinois has ordered all non-essential businesses to close until April 8th due to the virus outbreak. We are following this mandate. We are getting email at home and will ship all pending orders when we reopen on the 8th. Stay healthy everyone!!

01/25/2020

Corner pocket on the office pool table!

01/18/2020

We have moved into our new offices! Here is the front door. Lots of space, light, and everything fresh and new! Twice the space of our old offices.

10/30/2019

The ultra hard to find military 6072A black plate NOS tube by GE, we've got them!! Used in many tube microphones, this improved version of the 12AY7 also makes a killer V1 replacement in your guitar amp. Don't settle for current production 6072 tubes, get the original here!!!

04/26/2019

We are open again Monday to Friday from 8AM to 4PM USA central time. Give us a call or send an email!

04/05/2019

Check out our new sales page on Mercari! We feature both our famous NOS tubes but also the unusual and the rare. Antiques and what-not! See it here:

In business selling vintage vacuum tubes online since 1996, Audiotubes has arrived here with some of our best selected items! We have the best selection of hand selected vintage audio vacuum tubes. We have all of the types used in tube hi-fi, guitar amps, vintage radio, and ham radio or industrial a...

03/09/2019

Here is a close up of the 1940s military 5R4GY showing the twin getters on the bottom. Most are angled like this and some are flat across. The later version only has one bottom getter and does not perform as well.

03/06/2019

The rare 1942-1946 5R4GY military rectifier with the V-angle bottom getters. We stack this $200 NOS tube up against the $1500 W-E 274B and many clients prefer the sonics of this tube! Lots in stock now but don't wait or they will be gone!

12/15/2018

Just to update everyone: our offices will be closed for some much needed downtime over the Holidays. We will close at close of business on Dec. 21 and reopen on Monday Jan. 14th, 2019. Any orders that must ship by the 21st or 22nd must be placed by noon on Dec. 20. Thanks to all of our customers for an excellent year and Happy New Year!

04/15/2018

Now online! Some of the early Internet radio shows we did on the audiotubes.com web page. WBDJ was our radio station we had on the web site just for fun nearly 20 years ago. I ran across most of the original shows and have them on Mixcloud now. Pictured here with a friend back when we ran lights and sound at our high school auditorium in addition to radio stations. Easy to see how I became a tube geek.
Click the link, visit our Mixcloud page and listen to some early Brent Jessee Recording & Supply, Inc. radio shows!

WBDJ-FM is on Mixcloud. Listen for free to their radio shows, DJ mix sets and Podcasts

10/22/2017

Our most popular tubes are now listed on reverb.com and many are discounted overstock. Here is an example listing. Save! http://rvrb.io/1975-national-5ar4-g0z

This is the one and only Sylvania USA made "fat bottle" 5AR4 or GZ34 rectifier vacuum tube. One of the best kept secrets in the world of New Old Stock tubes: In the 1970s Sylvania relabeled hundreds of thousands of their 5AR4 tubes to 5V4GA to accommodate the larger market for that tube type. Th...