Thomas Mayer goes into the matter of complaining regarding the tube pricing and more affordable golden days. He thinks, that we’re actually on the verge of best possible times when it comes to tube audio. He feels, that while there are quite some atmosphere high priced tube gear, there are vast selection of dirty cheap tubes which are available in abundance as NOS. And continues how the internet brought the way to find suppliers of most esoteric tube few clicks away. The same goes for the essential tube data books, that used to take enormous time to find back in time.
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