Anyone able to reach Triode USA?

RE: Anyone able to reach Triode USA?, posted on April 16, 2015 at 08:53:49
petercapo Audiophile Posts: 665 Joined: December 29, 2012	Really? I thought Ned left Triode a while ago. It's still his company?

RE: Anyone able to reach Triode USA?, posted on April 16, 2015 at 09:15:03
dave slagle Manufacturer Posts: 5430 Location: NYC Joined: April 27, 2001	That I don't know... dave

The company was wrested from Ned in a rather underhanded way years ago-nT, posted on April 16, 2015 at 09:18:12
Cleantimestream Audiophile Posts: 7551 Location: Kentucky Joined: June 30, 2005	! The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.

RE: The company was wrested from Ned in a rather underhanded way years ago, posted on April 16, 2015 at 09:24:32

petercapo
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Not surprising to hear, I guess.

No reason a company should not answer reasonable questions about their products and sales policies. Trying to get into contact with them these days has been like walking face first into a brick wall.

RE: Anyone able to reach Triode USA?, posted on April 16, 2015 at 10:16:33

Ivan303
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Link below:

First they came for the dumb-asses
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a dumb-ass

Buy From NED!

I always got great service., posted on April 16, 2015 at 11:28:20
gusser Audiophile Posts: 3649 Location: So. California Joined: September 6, 2006	Bought ten or more Dynaco replacement transformers plus other stuff over the years between 2001-2009. Never had any issue, shipped fast.

That was then, this was six months ago., posted on April 16, 2015 at 11:58:40

twystd
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I called about 6 months ago, trying to get support documentation of the older triode boards. Got a polite young lady, however it was pretty evident that tubes were obsolete way before she was born, and was pretty clueless about my inquiries. I asked if there was anyone I could talk to about a couple of simple technical questions, and was told there wasn't anyone available. I asked her if Uncle Ned was still there. She didn't know who I was talking about. At that point I figured that any further inquiries would be fruitless.

twystd

RE: I always got great service., posted on April 16, 2015 at 12:20:55
petercapo Audiophile Posts: 665 Joined: December 29, 2012	Yes, in those days I got responses from them, too. But, in more recent times, they have been unresponsive.

Who else sells Dynaco replacements? (nt), posted on April 16, 2015 at 13:18:07
Triode_Kingdom Audiophile Posts: 10049 Location: Central Texas Joined: September 24, 2006	nada aqui

RE: Who else sells Dynaco replacements? (nt), posted on April 16, 2015 at 15:09:49
mqracing Manufacturer Posts: 4323 Joined: June 29, 2000	We do. Built from the original factory blueprints. My shop is about two blocks away from the company that built Dyna's transformers. MSL Builder of MagneQuest & Peerless transformers since 1989

In Philly?, posted on April 16, 2015 at 17:50:54
gusser Audiophile Posts: 3649 Location: So. California Joined: September 6, 2006	I grew up in Bucks County - Doylestown. Went to Drexel 1978-82

Well people get old and tired., posted on April 16, 2015 at 17:54:38
gusser Audiophile Posts: 3649 Location: So. California Joined: September 6, 2006	Can't blame them for that I guess.

RE: In Philly?, posted on April 16, 2015 at 19:20:52
Triode_Kingdom Audiophile Posts: 10049 Location: Central Texas Joined: September 24, 2006	"I grew up in Bucks County" Cool! I spent about half my life in NE PA. Passed the General Amateur Radio exam at the FCC office in Philly when I was 14. That was just a few years ago... :)

RE: In Philly?, posted on April 16, 2015 at 19:37:14

mqracing
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yes... philly... in the Kensington section of the city. Near Kensington & Allegheny Aves.

Dynaco and Acrosound of course were Philly bred companies. Acrosound was in the Manayunk section of Philly. Dyna originally was in West Philly, then moved to 30th and Jefferson and then to Blackwood, NJ.

Dyna's transformer maker was from the Kensington section of the city. At the SW corner of E Allegheny Ave and Emerald Streets. My house is two blocks south of this location at E. Clementine and Emerald (sw corner). My shop is two blocks north and east of the old transformer facility.

Originally (back in the fifties) the name of the transformer company was Tresco, then G&G Tresco and finally Technitrol. Technitrol continued to build Dyna transformers into the eighties after Stereo Cost Cutters in Ohio bought out the remaining stocks and etc from a previous Dynaco buyer (ESS by memory)...

in the mid-ninties Technitrol sold off all of their winding equipment and I bought all of the Dynaco vacuum tube related transformer designs from them.

MSL

Builder of MagneQuest & Peerless transformers since 1989

RE: In Philly?, posted on April 16, 2015 at 19:38:00
mqracing Manufacturer Posts: 4323 Joined: June 29, 2000	what town in NE PA, TK? Builder of MagneQuest & Peerless transformers since 1989

RE: In Philly?, posted on April 16, 2015 at 23:45:10
Triode_Kingdom Audiophile Posts: 10049 Location: Central Texas Joined: September 24, 2006	Mostly the Scranton/WB area - Kingston, Trucksville, White Haven.

RE: The company was wrested from Ned in a rather underhanded way years ago, posted on April 18, 2015 at 10:18:42

Paul Eizik
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Triode Elec. used to be within walking distance of me. Ned sold the business at one point, but remained on for some time until he quit some time later. There were several guys working there by the time it moved down the street on Roscoe, then to the old TV shop on Irving Park, then to the western suburbs. As usual with small specialty vendors like Triode, something like a health problem or even a vehicle in the shop can disrupt business. At the 2nd place on Roscoe they once had a few feet of water in the basement after a heavy rain and they could'nt get at a lot of stuff which was up on shelves! Hopefully they will recover, they have always been very helpful and had good prices. Ned is a living encyclopedia concerning all things vacuum tube.

Paul

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Anyone able to reach Triode USA?

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