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Säljer en mycket fin och extremt välmatchad kvartett av äkta NOS Svetlana Winged -C- 6550C från S:t Petersburg-fabriken i Ryssland. Rören har kvar sina originala OTK61 kvalitetskontroll-stämplar och levereras i originalaskar. Testade på Sovjetisk L3-3 rörtestare med mycket starka och jämna värden: Ia: 96 / 96 / 96 / 96 S: 8,7 / 9,1 / 9,0 / 9,0 Detta är en ovanligt välmatchad kvartett med mycket jämn transkonduktans och anodström — idealiskt för krävande high-end hifi-först
This is fairly priced, sitting a bit above the kr2,788 median but well below the kr7,263 75th percentile, so it does not read as ambitious for the current used market. At kr3,500, it’s close enough to the center of the pack that I’d treat it as a reasonable buy rather than a bargain hunt.
What makes it appealing is the combination of NOS, matched quartet, and original boxes—that’s exactly the kind of listing collectors like for both sonic consistency and resale appeal. Svetlana Winged C 6550C valves have a strong reputation for solid build and a big, authoritative presentation, and a clean matched set with packaging is especially useful if you want plug-and-play confidence or to keep a tube amp properly voiced.
Independent perspective — not a price guarantee. Always verify condition, accessories and provenance before purchase.
Svetlana is best known as a Russian vacuum-tube brand, rooted in the long industrial history of the Svetlana plant in St. Petersburg. The company traces its origins to Soviet-era tube manufacturing rather than to a modern consumer-audio startup, and the brand name later became tied up in licensing and ownership disputes between Russian and export-market interests. Public sources place its modern Western visibility mainly in the 1990s and early 2000s, with the original “Svetlana” name associated with tubes made in St. Petersburg and later versions sold under different markings.
Its product focus is vacuum tubes for hi-fi and professional audio, especially output and power tubes such as 6550, KT88, and related types used in amplifiers. Svetlana is not generally known as a maker of turntables, speakers, DACs, headphones, or cables. In practice, it sits in the tube-audio segment rather than the broader consumer hi-fi hardware market, and its name is most familiar to amplifier builders, restorers, and tube-rolling enthusiasts.
In the market, Svetlana occupies a niche, specialist position rather than a mass-market one. Among audiophiles, it is remembered for historically respected Russian-made valves and, depending on era and logo, for the complications of identifying genuine stock versus later-branded production. That makes it more of a collector- and enthusiast-recognized tube marque than a mainstream hi-fi brand, with value shaped as much by provenance and version as by the name itself.
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