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Western Electric looking for consumer feedback to make new tubes

Via @aricaudio on Facebook. Forwarding so folks here can weigh in.

Aric Audio Systems

Western Electric looking for consumer feedback to make new tubes! This was brought to my attention a few days ago, and I’ve filled out the form stating that I would love to see mid-priced 6SN7s, 5U4Gs, EL34s, and KT88s from them. I’m not sure how long of a time-frame we’re looking at here, but it appears at the very least that Western Electric is interested in hearing from us! Please fill out the form and don’t forget to put down what tubes you would like to see from them, this could be a good thing!

https://www.westernelectric.com/expand

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ghasley
2,507 posts
 

@whitestix 

Their tubes are too pricey for their performance compared to the best Chinese tubes. 

WE300b, Elrog and Takatsuki are the three best 300b’s cuurently manufactured. I can understand someone preferring one of these brands over another but there isn’t a Chinese 300b in the same league as WE.

 

whitestix
724 posts
 

ghastly,

I suspect that your are correct that the tubes you mention are the Valhalla of 300b tubes, but at $6K for a quad of new WE 300b tubes, there are much most affordable choices that might reveal a high percentage of the magic of 300b tubes. You could buy a decent used car for the price of a pair of NOS WE 300 tubes.  

ghasley
2,507 posts
 

@whitestix

but at $6K for a quad of new WE 300b tubes,

A new quad of WE300b tubes are $3k not $6k. There is a cost of entry to high quality SET. I’m not saying that Chinese 300b’s dont sound good but there is more to the art that costs $$ to get right.

 

analogj
105 posts
 

I just did the survey, and added small preamp tube types.

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sbank
3,379 posts
 

Thanks, I also added a number of preamp and other tubes

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