EveAnna has sold her biz


https://www.mixonline.com/business/manley-laboratories-acquired?fbclid=IwY2xjawLdZVBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHizwnFf0FNcDCK49SQ0xQAZq47mdJpbGjILB-1tfWE5s1NUk_k2cvGUTvXsO_aem_-SZVRTtq8rgIlDEe5ZvggQ

Ralph Karsten has been vocal as to the uncertain future of tube gear. This is a punch to the gut. My totally unsupported hunch is that EveAnna has the same concerns. I always wanted to have one of Manley's 300B amps. I don't know now. I am a very happy owner of a Steelhead phono stage for ten years. Eventually the outboard power supply will fail (they always do) and I may be without the ability to have it serviced if this new owner ends up closing shop. 

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Wonder how much tariffs had to do with this? She posted a rant about them which basically stated they would ruin her. She, like almost all electronic manufacturers, source many parts from China and you can’t just replace that source overnight so her costs to manufacture increase dramatically. At the same time over 1/2 her sales are overseas so with other countries applying reciprocal tariffs on her products, she gets a double whammy. It costs her more to produce and her overseas customers have to pay import tariffs so her products become prohibitively expensive for many.

An American manufacturer employing Americans gets run out of business by big, beautiful tariffs ???