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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
jebe1
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Here is a link to a July 15th interview of Mike Matthews discussing the current status of his tube manufacturing plant. Looks like things are now under control.

http://www.gearwire.com/matthews-russia-tube-story.html
armstrod OP
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Jebe1,

That's great news! Very interesting video. Mike Matthews seems to be making far more headway with President Putin than is President Bush. :-)

Did you catch at the end where he mentioned "Tung-sol" and "6SN7" almost in the same breath? Can't wait to see what comes of that...
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atmasphere
11,967 posts
 
FWIW, we had enough go-arounds in the past with New Sensor that we started sourcing our own tubes (right now none of our tubes are made in Russia). The writing was on the wall about this 2 years ago- if I were him I'd pull all the tooling and move the operation to a different country.
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