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Right - if you look at the history...

Richardson was making and supplying tubes to the US Government through the 1980's - these were most certainly not Chinese or Russian tubes I an assure you - the cold war was still in full swing, and the US Military was not buying tubes from it's main enemies ;)

If you look at the history, Cetron bought up a LOT of the tube manufacturing in the US, and then Richardson acquired Cetron around the same time it acquired National. I had actually hoped I might find some even better treasures there, but a lot of the tubes they have are weird receiving tubes I am not familiar with.

When you talk to the customer service rep, they can tell you if the tubes are Russian or NOS. The only ones she said were NOS that weren't US made were the 12AX7's.

Rob

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