Blue Bulbs for Marantz

[02audionoob]

The receiver is 30 years old. How sure are you those blue lamps are the originals?

[poppachubby]

The receiver is 30 years old. How sure are you those blue lamps are the originals?

You're right , there's no real way to know, but they certainly look 30 years old. I'll take one last ditch effort online and then I won't really have a choice anyhow, I get whatever I get...blue or not.

[02audionoob]

You're right , there's no real way to know, but they certainly look 30 years old.

I don't mean I don't think they're old. In fact, they could be 40 years old, for all I know...I'm thinking maybe they were either transplants from or original parts for one of the intense blue early models like the Twenty-Two in this image I borrowed from classic-audio.com.