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
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!
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
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