Tubes getting hard to come by?

Why do you even bother posting jjss?

sometimes i wonder myself... 😂

it is a such hard, worried-filled life we lead in expensive-tube-amp owners tip-top-1%er land... oh, and then you get old, go deaf and die... wonder how the tube amp aficianados in kyiv are getting tubes these days 🤔... btw i hear there is a quad of kt120’s to be found in the aiming mechanism of bt7 russian tank turrets 🙄

i do hope you find a source a source of cheap plentiful reliable good sounding tubes soon... or at least the reassurance you seek from others in this oft-suffering, deprived community of ours

Hopefully we'll see both innovations in tube manufacturing which will create new tubes with improved quality over nos, and increased production capability. 

Redesigning what? Tube topology? What makes NOS tubes desirable is their sonic character and durability compared to modern production contributed by used materials used back then. Nowdays most of these materials are health hazardous.

Still you need new plants and raw material, back to square one.

Old tube factories are sold or dismantled, ROI would be low.

As for NOS how many hands to switch before dead if not already.

My friends every year old production tubes availability is dropping drastically and only hope for users to benefit is a min demand.

Anyway procurement was not great, for new tubes, but during this time nothing is.

@petg60 I agree that nos tubes have unique qualities that can't be replicated, that's why I mentioned innovation. And I do in fact observe in reviews, have heard and purchased contemporary tubes that match or exceed some nos. Some of the nos tubes such as the 101D and 300B's I use are virtually unobtainable. Thanks to the boutique tube manufacturers nice tubes are available again. We better hope for innovation and attention to making fine sounding tubes in future, barring that, having tube equipment will be less desirable.

With the quality of solid state amps these days ie Gryphon, Boulder, Constellation  etc...why bother with it?...and that was a rhetorical question 

I'd add Simaudio Moon to that list missioncoonery.  Nothing else has propelled my Martin Logan Summit X electrostatics to the rarified heights they have reached with the 700i integrated by Simaudio.