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In Reply to: NOS vs New Tubes posted by AudioSoul on May 31, 2016 at 13:23:21:
The US factories that made tubes were often relocated after the market started falling off. Raytheon and RCA set up shop in Japan for instance. Many of the new tube makers are using equipment that has been in use for over half a century.
Materials should be as good or better unless there was some stuff used during WWII that was so lethal that not even the Chinese will use it, which I doubt.
So if the equipment is the same or improved, the material as good or better then the only thing left is the people who make the tubes and the QC.
There is a market, or the things simply would not be made and if that was the case then NOS would be out of reach of many of today's users of tubes. Supply and demand. Who was the guy on Rec.Audio,Tubes that was trying to buy up all the Mullard EL-34s he could? I wonder if his dream came true. He listened to an Eico AF-4 with University Triax, or so he told me. The EL-34s were strictly his retirement. If things like the KT-66s and a few of the other replica tubes weren't around I would think it was assured. Now I don't even have a guess.
Thatch
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