Tube takeover


For all you bottleheads, here's some very bad news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/business/worldbusiness/16cheat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Regardless of your opinion of the Sovtek brand, this is sure to drive up the price of tubes in general. That's a lot of production going offline...
armstrod

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We need to resurrect all those talented Americanski tubemakers from the 1940s.
In earlier discussions on tubes some people wrote that not only were all those WWII factories and equipment long gone, but the knowledge and artistry that went into making them also went extinct. Sad indeed. My hunt for WWII era VT-231s must continue.
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