EveAnna has sold her biz
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.
Thanks for sharing, I did a quick search, found out ’the wife’ was far more active in the company than you might have assumed. I’m glad to have learned that much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manley_Laboratories I’m gonna read this when I get some time I'm into part two https://www.psaudio.com/blogs/copper/eveanna-dauray-manley-of-manley-labs-part-two
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The nice thing about all tube stuff is that it can be fixed by somebody who knows what they are doing; the problem is the shortage of tubes (no small problem). I met David years ago; Eva I dealt with a little when the Steelhead was reviewed on 6Moons and the reviewer had a grounding issue that was easily fixed; I also talked to her about the sound of using the Steelhead without a separate line stage v adding a line stage (I preferred the latter). For some reason, I always liked going through the MM inputs at 47kohm rather than the autoformer using LOMCs. The power supply of the unit was solid state. That could probably be repaired with substitute parts if needed. |
