Russian tube supply issues

So much silliness! Folks have all this concern over tubes from Russia and how their availability impacts this or that, rather than the innocent people in harms way who are the real victims.

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Wow such ugly Americans, worried about Tubes.

Why do people keep posting these facile virtue signaling posts?  As if YOU are the only one who "really cares" about what is going on in the war?

We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Because we are posting here about the tube situation DOES NOT MEAN that we don't care about what is happening in the world or about the plight of Ukraine.

The fact we are talking about AUDIO GEAR in an AUDIO GEAR FORUM, and TUBES in in the AMPLIFIER forum, is because THAT's what we discuss here.

This is NOT WHERE I COME TO TALK ABOUT THE WAR.

I, and I'm sure others here, do enough of that elsewhere.  It's all over the news, it's most of what we talk about among friends, it's what we are horrified over, worry about.  I have dear friends with parents, brothers and sisters in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus who are beside themselves with worry.   Not only that, it's gone beyond the Ukraine and we are ALL being held hostage by a madman waving nuclear weapons at the West!  I'm worried about the people of Ukraine, and inspired by their bravery.  I'm also looking at my own kids hoping THEY have a future too.

Please, take your bloody sanctimony elsewhere.  You don't really know a damned thing about what people think, or who they know, or what they are going through just because they posted here about tube amps.   What are you doing spending time on a audio forum when Ukrainian are dying?  What a first world thing to do.  Have you no conscience?

why can't the U.S. start making audio tubes?  

@malibu457 "why can’t the U.S. start making audio tubes?"

A member over at the TheGearPage site believes to have the answer. LOL 🤣

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/why-no-return-to-proper-us-tube-production.671019/post-7673762

@prof x1000 - thanks man.

@malibu457 libu why can’t the U.S. start making audio tubes?

Someone in America could start making tubes, of course they could.

However there are already a few established manufacturers supplying a relatively small market.

There is even some diversity - for example, Tung-Sol is generally premium, and EH is at the lower end. Most reasonably popular tube types are supported.

Also JJ and a few outfits in China. I’m missing a couple niche (premium?) players in Europe somewhere..

These are just some of the facts that that person in America would need to share with the people financing the project . If NASA or the military could use them they’d get billions from Congress..

In the meantime it would probably be easier to obtain finance to commission and build a new coal fired power station anywhere in the West.

PS - anyway, a factoid that people may have missed amongst all the virtue signalling handwaving (although it was made pretty obvious to Blind Freddie in the link in the opening comment) is that the tubes made in Russia are done so by a company domiciled in America, New Sensor. Company profits (or losses) accrue to America. Or maybe Ireland, but that’s another story.