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Tube takeover

For all you bottleheads, here's some very bad news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/business/worldbusiness/16cheat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Regardless of your opinion of the Sovtek brand, this is sure to drive up the price of tubes in general. That's a lot of production going offline...
armstrod
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jond
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Let's pray that the forces of good, if they exist in Russia, somehow put a stop to this!
bartokfan
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whats the article say, requires a login, which i'm not willing to do.
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paul
bigsam2
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I guess I didn't realize that only three companies in the world manufactured tubes. I realize that guitar tube amps or audiophile amps, preamps, etc are products used by a minority of the population, but it seems that would be an open market that could be filled by someone industrious or by an existing high end company.
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