Tubes becoming hard to get?


An article in today’s WSJ talks about tubes for both guitar amps and stereo gear becoming scarce due to Far East and Ukraine/Russian tensions saying most tubes originate from China, Slovakia, & Russia.  As such, people are beginning to Hoard and retailers are beginning to limit purchases. 
 

 

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If i understand, Western Electric Co create in web page a survey to what type the popular tubes audiophile needs and they will study an options to made tubes in USA and the prices but it will see soon.

@lowrider57 ​​​​@ghdprentice thank you. 
I do think that the folks at upscale are doing the right thing. We call it throttling or allocation. 
 

this way it weeds the bogart hoarders out.

 

This will pass and mot of the tube companies are US owned.

May head back to help in July. Such great people.

 

"Or just responding to market conditions based on future supply issues and increased costs....just like gasoline. "

We are paying Scarcity Rent in economics term. 😉

Try ‘The Tube Store’ (the tube store.com) then.  Prices and availability seem OK