[Boatanchors] Missing a Bet

[Bry Carling]

I see new tube amplifiers selling on eBay for $2500 and up.
73

AF4K / Bry

> From: ranchorobbo at gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 05:58:09 -0500
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Missing a Bet
> 
> I briefly entertained the idea of making new tube p.p. audio amps and
> selling them to the glass audio crowd.  But if you seriously go
> through the parts list for a basic simple monophonic p.p. tube amp,
> something like the Eico HF-14, with 6BQ5s you discover that the parts
> cost plus everything else connected with business puts the price of a
> seemingly cheap item at around $700.  Now you're competing with every
> used little tube amp on eBay for $150.  This is one reason why no one
> is making anything like that for the economy minded and why the new
> tube audio gear is the sky high stuff for the salon crowd with chromed
> chassis, gilded transformers, and a leather bound manual.
> 
> 73
> 
> Rob
> K5UJ
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