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It struck me that the relatively small market that is the Guitar amplifier user still wants to buy new valve guitar amplifiers and that they need a source of new valves. Now I'm guessing that many are made in China perhaps on old machinery scavenged from the Europe and the US.
I don't know if these perform as well as the products that "streamed" off the 50's and 60's production lines, in theory with our better understanding of production techniques they should be better.
Do respected names like RCA. Philips, Mullard, Telefunken, etc still make them?
Just interested.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Is that the French chap , Claude Paillard?
http://www.euroaudioteam.com/en/eat-kt88-diamond-valve-000011.html
Nice production facility.
Strong rumours that Svetlana (winged C) have now finally left the audio market. Surely only a matter of time before it becomes un-commercial for the other "mainstream" manufacturers that remain. Would be great if we got a few "boutique" manufacturers like EAT making high quality valves, but of course they are aiming at HiFi market where no price seems to be too high! Unfortunately unlikely that those prices will work for guitar amps.
Then again, those big kW transmitter valves can be used for audio, in this case supported by an orchestra of struggling Mercury vapour rectifiers .... nice! go to 2:40 if you don't want to watch it all.
According to Wikipedia EI stopped valve manufacturing in 2006.
I know that Groove tubes were supposed to have bought up some old Mullard/GE machinery but I don't know if they are doing anything with it.
There was a rumour on the internet that they got bombed by NATO during the Kosovo war, but I don't think that's true since they didn't shut down until some time after that.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein