In case you are curious, the 300B is currently "Matched Pair $1499 • Single Tube $699 • Matched Quad $3099"steve wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 1:13 pm Whatever they're selling 300Bs for, if they can make usable VF14 or AC701k tubes they could likely add a zero.
Interesting reading about the VF14M from a company making what I'm guessing is a solid state replacement: http://www.phaedrus-audio.com/VF14M_story.htmsteve wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 1:13 pm FWIW I sent a message to Western Electric offering to give them an exhaustive list of tubes that will make them rich if they can conjure them, no word in reply yet. Some microphone tubes are going for mid-four figures, unrelated to the Russian deal, just because none have been made in like 60 years and all the working ones are in microphones already. Whatever they're selling 300Bs for, if they can make usable VF14 or AC701k tubes they could likely add a zero.
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Another way to look at it is I wonder if some of the amps I want to get rid of will be more valuable due to the tubes in them vs what they would normally fetch (VT-22, Fender Deville). Hell, someone buy the tubes and I'll keep them as speaker cabs for my Quilters..twelvepoint wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:11 am Must be an interesting experience to have a very special piece of gear that's ultimately doomed. I guess it's just a mic, and we're all doomed anyway, but still.
Garth wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:04 am I know I've said this before & also recognize this is kinda the whole middle-age dad yelling "they can put a man on the moon but they can't bla bla bla bla bla" while his family ignores him kind of reaction...but it really does seem crazy to me that with the available mfg tech we have & a very well-known high-demand for many specific vacuum tubes that these can't be properly fulfilled - especially considering the well-documented profit incentive...just...why....
I mean there's a whole bunch of wonderful roll-your-own nerds already doing this (admittedly to a much lesser extent in their garages and workshops but still proves it can be done). Seems like Neumann or competitor would have a HUGE incentive to spin this back up & could even start making the U47/U48 to original spec and sail off to the north pole on that cash barge.
One hand, agree it's a shame the functionality of these classic mics will be eventually lost forever but it's not like there's a shortage of really amazing sounding mics available I guess.
Sure but I think in the case of what I'm proposing for those high-cost, low-numbers tubes would be a lot less like an assembly line and a lot more like extremely-limited-run prototypes. Like 12AX7 or 6L6? Sure. Probably one million amps out there using these tubes.Dr Tony Balls wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:37 am In the case of tube production a lot of that is tooling. A 6L6GC could easily be made in the US but if there arent mothballed plants available in which to do such a thing, then you've got a lot of cost sunk into tooling up a new plant for that.
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