Re: Tube replacement help...

Arfa Daily wrote:
>
> No, I still repair " much " that is currently manufactured and used by
> musicians as PA equipment. Whilst some of it is quite expensive, at least an
> equal amount is very reasonably priced, and certainly on a par with
> similarly rated solid state equipment.
>
> Some tubed hi fi is very high end price wise - I currently have a Shanling
> SP-80 on the bench, and the price tag on that is for an amount that would
> have bought you a decent secondhand car a few years ago - but there are also
> reasonably priced items around, and tube designs have been making a real
> comeback over the last couple of years in the home constructor market.
>
> Arfa


There is only a fraction of a percent of new tube gear built per
year, compared to even the late '70s when the tube was well on its way
out of the mainstream. I'll bet you could stop 100 people on the street
and not find more than one person with a tube in anything, other than a
CRT, unless you rigged the survey. People used to have 50 to 100 tubes
in various pieces of equipment around the house.

Even high power radio and TV transmitters ate going all solid state.

BTW, don't try to impress me about vacuum tube musical equipment. I
serviced it for over 30 years and I know where several Hammond organs,
and a few Leslie speakers are in use about a half mile from here. I use
to buy 100 6GH8 tubes at a time for TV repair, and had over 5000 new
tubes in stock between our two TV shops and five service trucks. I
repaired a lot of West, Sunn, Fender, and other tube musical amps. I
have worked with subminiature 1 volt tubes all the way up to 65 KW EEV
Klystron tubes used in UHF TV transmitters. Those tubes were over
$45,000 US, each, plus special freight charges.

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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