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How expensive are best NOS tubes ? And how difficult to find ?

Phono stages, preamps and power amps. Any non-Chinese adequate substitutes? I know that if you have Lamm, Vladimir has a few sets of Russian tubes in stock for each particular unit, and it is not really expensive to retube them. But if you have, say, VAC or CAT or Atma-Sphere and want best longest lasting and most reliable tubes, what then ? Don't ask me why not Chinese, I can't talk about it here except that I don't trust their quality control.
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randy-11
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the expense is mainly in picking thru 1,000 tubes to match 10 very closely

there is a video on how Audio Research turns a cheap tube into a spendy hand-picked tub - same for caps, etc.

I have a very simple solution: I buy ARC tubes for my ARC gear (!)

I let their engineers do the jobs they were assigned to do.

Then I pay them.
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