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Western Electric Vacuum Tubes

Started by Fabius, November 18, 2016, 11:14:07 AM

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Fabius

Unbelievable! It's amazing what audiophiles (usually in Asia) will pay for Western Electric audio stuff. I'm told there two tubes will go for thousands.

eBay item: http://tinyurl.com/zc5epsl

Tom Vaughn
La Porte, Indiana
ATCA Past President
ATCA #765
C*NET 1+ 821-9905

Holtzer-Cabot

Quote from: Fabius on November 18, 2016, 11:14:07 AM
Unbelievable! It's amazing what audiophiles (usually in Asia) will pay for Western Electric audio stuff. I'm told there two tubes will go for thousands.

eBay item: http://tinyurl.com/zc5epsl
Yes it sure is something! I don't know how these people have the money to keep buying amps and tubes for this money! Who would pay a few thousand for a vacuum tube? Isn't there some risk for them to break during shipping?! I saw YouTube user Blueglow Electronics did a video the other day on a Western Electric tube amp that just the audio output transformer was worth a few thousand! Even the power transformer!
Western Electric - A unit of the Bell System and main supplier of AT&T since 1882! -15 year old phone collector!

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These tubes sold for $4,200 on 11/22/16 and were the subject of Special Auction Contest #16

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=17129.0

Fabius

Is the sound and performance of these Western Electric 300B tubes that much better then modern production 300B tubes that cost about $164? And if so then is it thousands of dollars of better performance? Maybe it's also a status thing.

New 300B tubes: http://tinyurl.com/hqyeof6

Tom Vaughn
La Porte, Indiana
ATCA Past President
ATCA #765
C*NET 1+ 821-9905