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In Reply to: Tube availability article posted by rwiley on August 2, 2021 at 13:43:02:
...he's the guy who took a grave situation of a depleting market in the 70's and made deals to have popular audio tubes manufactured again in factories mainly over in Russia. Audio tubes share many of the types that audio and musicians use, but the musician's needs outnumbered audio and still do. Old US stock was still being dumped at the time but 70-80's US production, if any, in general was sad quality at that point. He bought up trade names and manufactured Sovtek tubes at first and went on with R&D while making deals to buy up trade marks if they were not expired. Gold Lion, Electroharmonix, Tung Sol etc
It was a time when Boyk was making jokes about how the Russian jet fighters still using tubes sounded better than ours.
Kudos Mike
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