On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:38:18PM -0700, Jerry Kaidor wrote:
> >
> > A single site mother lode of Tube information, many links:
> >
> > http://www.tubebooks.org/tube_data.htm
> >
> > What it does not explain is how/why there are companies that are able to
> > sell 200 watt TUBE audio amps (using 3-400Z, looks like) for $18,000.
> > Nor does it give out that company's customer list. Somewhere there is a
> > photo of a "monoblock" tube amp with a large Transmitting tube in
> > prominent position
> > for $18,000, two required for stereo.
>
> *** There are some gullible audiophiles out there. About 15 years ago, I
> was visiting my audiophile friend Bob. He had some magazines. The
> magazines had ads for things like speaker cables with water cooled sheaths
> - speaker cables with the copper bathed in light - Magic boxes for getting
> "blessed" AC. Bob and I had a good laugh. We thought of a company to
> sell price tags with really big numbers on them - such a tag would
> immediately improve the sound of any system.
Oh, yes. The lettering on the tags should be gold leaf, of course --
nothing else would be at all suitable -- but I'm not at all certain
what the tag material should be. Perhaps grain-aligned, oxygen-free,
cryogenically-treated copper would be good.
Alternatively, the tags themselves could be of precious metal, selected to
suit the price level, with the lettering laser-cut into the tag itself.
Yes; I think that is the way to go.
<hums happily, looks up prices for sheet Au, Pt, Rh>
--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin
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