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
Let's pray that the forces of good, if they exist in Russia, somehow put a stop to this!
whats the article say, requires a login, which i'm not willing to do.
thanxs
paul
I guess I didn't realize that only three companies in the world manufactured tubes. I realize that guitar tube amps or audiophile amps, preamps, etc are products used by a minority of the population, but it seems that would be an open market that could be filled by someone industrious or by an existing high end company.
We need to resurrect all those talented Americanski tubemakers from the 1940s.
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