Thanx Ralph,
I think you just want them to recommend your amps:)))
I hear you about the financial aspects of the audio business. Not any different from any other consumer oriented activity. I include medicine in that category.
Atma-Sphere amps are expensive because a human has to sit at a bench with 13 rolls of colored wire and a soldering iron hooking up one wire at a time on an awful number of tube sockets. There are no circuit boards, another profit increasing approach. I would rather support an American worker than a Taiwanese robot. There are many solid state amps of similar power that cost a lot more although the MA-3 is seriously up there. (twice as many tube sockets)
I think you just want them to recommend your amps:)))
I hear you about the financial aspects of the audio business. Not any different from any other consumer oriented activity. I include medicine in that category.
Atma-Sphere amps are expensive because a human has to sit at a bench with 13 rolls of colored wire and a soldering iron hooking up one wire at a time on an awful number of tube sockets. There are no circuit boards, another profit increasing approach. I would rather support an American worker than a Taiwanese robot. There are many solid state amps of similar power that cost a lot more although the MA-3 is seriously up there. (twice as many tube sockets)