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In Reply to: Re: I think the dealer meant CV4024 posted by Pär on August 14, 2002 at 04:09:04:
I suppose the same has happened to many tubes in the past (45, 6SN7, 6CG7 etc.) >>That's a very good point - what happens if you destroy thousands of stock of a tube that then subsequently comes back into fashion? I don't know if the 6SN7 ever went out of fashion, but it's certainly had a huge revival.
Market economics is certainly behind some counter-intuitive activities. For example it is widely known that the diamonds in circulation are just the tip of the iceberg and that the rest are either stockpiled or destroyed to keep world prices up (even in the war when they were needed for industrial use).
I wonder whether tubes are going the way of LPs - right now there's a huge tube market in Far East collectors which has sent prices up for collectibles - just as it did with LPs (and vintage cars, though I don't know if the market was far East in this case). Subsequently the market fell right back when the Far East stopped buying. The dealer in question said he'd sold 12 ECC81s last year. That's pretty meagre - a few Fender users no doubt.
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- Re: I think the dealer meant CV4024 - andy evans 04:39:59 08/14/02 (1)
- Re: I think the dealer meant CV4024 - Pär 05:39:36 08/14/02 (0)
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