Manufacturers don't get it. make tubes visible.


After all of this time, why don't manufacturers get it? Everyone I talk to who owns tube gear wants to see, at the very least, the power tubes while the gear is operational. Many want to see the preamp tubes as well. So why do so many great manufacturers still bury the tubes inside of the gear? Are they afraid we will electrocute ourselves? And, if this is true, who is going to miss a few deranged audiophiles anyway, not to mention their wayward offspring and badly trained pets? Interestingly, large transmitting tubes which pose, by far, the greatest danger, are almost always out in the wind.
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I love the glow of my tubes and the look of two mono blocks with there tubes proudly displayed, not mention the real reason... the sound.
I do agree some of the amps are ugly.

No lava lamp for me !
I dont want or need to see tubes to know they are there, I dont care for the exposed tube look and would but a closed unit if I had a choice.
Actually tubes are a very useful tool for creative arts. I forget the name of the guy who finds mercury tubes and builds amps with tubes placed in what appear to be a random pattern around an antique meat grinder.
Joe why not just angle the tubes so that they form a an oval peak. Start low and reach an acme. It would be very cool if you could have them project further as they climb. No I think it would be grotesque. How about a diagonal strip of tubes on a mirror polished chrome /Steel top. or an X patter put a optical blue light under a simple strip of plexglass as the tube cage with just the tube tops poking thru holes in the plexiglass.Well I willkeep thinking,eventually should I livbe a long life about one thousand years statistically I'll come across something. Good Luck honestly just watch out for sticking right in the front angled upward they would look like a miniature male process ready for action.
Furthermore...the chassis ought to be glass, so you can see and gloat over all those expensive capacitors and resistors. Hopefully they don't glow.