Emission Labs - Introduction

We work the traditional way, and we have all critical processes in-house. Like this, we depend as little as possible on other companies for technical support. We use hard metal for all critical parts of the tube, and produce every part and piece part ourselves. This starts with the complete glasswork, and even for the pins of the tube base we have our own tools. Like this, we ensure our customers receive reproducible quality.

We believe our tubes like 45 and 300B have now the same quality as the best NOS tubes in every respect. We are proud to say, that our 45 tubes have lower noise than most NOS tubes, and we have an overall defect rate with our tubes of less than 0,5%. For specific type numbers we are even at a full 0% now. Those who have experience with DHT tubes, will know what it takes to reach this number. Our product range reaches from a dual rectifier, or a small tube like the Type 45 to the world's largest available single plate DHT triode like the EML 1605.

We have no plans for limit breaking products, as some have tried before, unsuccessfully. The most important for EML has always been quality, and only on this platform we develop new products. We plan no changes to our existing tubes. They don't need that, and we make them the same way triodes were build since 60 years. We think with HiFi tubes, our users prefer classical products, in highest perfection, and this is what we will concentrate on. We want to stay what we are. A small, technical oriented company, making products the traditional way, with the highest possible quality standard.

On the other hand, EML wouldn't be EML if we do not present from time to time something very interesting. Yet, this will never be an experiment. We have many single sourced tubes, and we want the user to be confident what is available now, is available in the future as well. So yes, we have some new tubes in the pipeline, but we do not stress quick developments. With these new products we want to use our existing technology the best possible way. May be you know the saying that most inventions are just a cross fertilization of old technologies. This is how we see this too, specially in vacuum technology you must think that way. There is so much existing tube technology, and this is all we need for our tubes.