[Amps] Tube Theory?

[Jerry Kaidor]

>
> 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.

                      - Jerry Kaidor