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Old 19th Oct 2019, 5:22 pm   #1
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Can a Quad amplifier run on 6L6GC valves in place of the KT66 ?
If so, what modifications are needed, if any ?
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Old 19th Oct 2019, 5:31 pm   #2
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Yes.


A search in this forum will turn up a fair bit of info, a good starting point may be here?


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I always liked the sound of the 6V6GT, beloved of Decca and Tripletone back in the day, and popped my Tripletone ones in a Quad 2 for fun and it sounded fine. 6L6 should be OK too I would expect.
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Old 20th Oct 2019, 8:50 am   #4
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The RCA 6L6GC black plate's are the best sounding ones in my opinion, but now getting up to similar prices of KT66's. I have a copious supply of these, as I own a couple of Fender twin amps and these have four in each amp.
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I always liked the sound of the 6V6GT, beloved of Decca and Tripletone back in the day, and popped my Tripletone ones in a Quad 2 for fun and it sounded fine. 6L6 should be OK too I would expect.
This is the first time am hearing or reading about KT66s being subed by 6V6 GTs. Is the pinout and voltage ratings same for both these valves?

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Old 20th Oct 2019, 3:23 pm   #6
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The pinouts of the 6V6 and the 6L6 and the KT66 are all the same. But the ratings of the 6V6 are substantially lower than the other two valves. I would expect their lifetime, even in a Quad II, which doesn't work KT66s hard, would be short.

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Downsizing to 6V6 should at least involve some rebiassing, I would think. The output loading would be rather less than ideal, too.
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Quad did cover the alternative use of the 5883 and 6L6G in its Quad II instructions, as shown here:

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The 6L6G was specified to be used in matched pairs. I imagine that this may have been because of its lower maximum anode dissipation as compared with the KT66.

I recall that back in the early 1980s, the then NZ agents for Quad put a 6L6G pair in one of my Quad II amplifiers when they were serviced. As I recall – and as expected – in normal use I couldn’t tell the difference between that and the other one which retained its KT66s. Perhaps there would have been a difference when driven to clipping, but I didn’t go there.


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I'm assuming that Quad meant that the 5881 (a widespread industrial-series 6L6 derivative) could be substituted, rather than the 5883 (a somewhat specialist waveguide-mounted X-band T/B switch....)
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