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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
armstrod OP
618 posts
 
Bartokfan and others,

For those of you who can't log in to the Times site, try this link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/business/worldbusiness/16cheat.html?ex=1148443200&en=7966c3c77ced0368&ei=5070&emc=eta1
djpearl
2 posts
 
Here's a link to a more detailed story from 6moons.com: http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/newsensor/newsensor.html
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
no worries.......china will continue to pirate all our favorites anyway.
allanbhaganinfo
121 posts
 
The Chinese would like nothing better.
tbg
5,263 posts
 
If you have compared Chinese and nos American tubes, you would be unhappy about the prospects. I do not think much of Russian made tubes either, however. Maybe the mafia will make better tubes.
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