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In Reply to: Poll: would a store totally devoted to S.E.T. work? posted by MKG on February 25, 2007 at 11:08:30:
Madonna and Ronny Milsap have a vacuum tube operated studio they record in at times and I read this 3 years ago so I have to find the article but those two were mentioned and of course you have a lot of blues that is done today and many blues singers idolize eric clapton and Jimi Hendrix which are avid tube aficianados and even tho Hendrix is long gone,his legend lives on and on.
When you look at all the new tube amps comming on the market the audio magazines,not to mention the ones comming from the far east,you cant help but take notice.
If you go back to the mid 70s to late 80s,most of your high end speakers were VERY inefficient..What was happening is there was a price to power war of manufacturers going on between the dyna st400 and the phase linear 400 and the gas ampzilla and the pioneer spec two and many others and the only way the speakers could handle the high power was to make a complicated network that absorbed a lot of the power but it also made the speakers sound bland..The IMF TLS series and the Kefs were good examples of this and they finally had started making heavier duty drivers and simplifying the networks to respond well to the 1 watt range of the amp..The IMF pro 4s I used to have were 40 watts in to get 96 dbs out..That was insane and people started pulling out old vintage altec speakers and JBLs and voice of theatre and putting them on 8 watt set amps making people creme their pants and the big elite manufacturers realized this and now I can take a new pair of martin logan electrostats and play them to nice levels on a 10 watt set amp.Twenty years ago they would have laughed in your face if you made that statement.
So yes I think the tube market will grow more and more and you can see this by the evidence of new tubes comming out each year..They have to be selling somewhere and now there is going to be a 5 channel tube amp for video for 3 grand.
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Follow Ups
- The tube market is gaining advantage in many areas tho. - Michael Samra 19:51:31 02/25/07 (3)
- Causal relationship - Metralla 07:31:35 02/26/07 (2)
- Re: Causal relationship - Michael Samra 23:46:49 02/26/07 (1)
- Thanks mate - Metralla 07:24:16 02/27/07 (0)
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