following from what Mark was saying about Bud Purvine planning to retire.......it also seems that Iso-Tango are quitting in September....
from what the report on diyaudio indicates, Suzuki San may be quitting due to the fall off in valve interest.....
I also noticed a drop off in AER web site content recently.....
maybe next year's black will be solid state...on va voir
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Well, we're counting on you to show us the way with the F6, Ed 
because so far solid state has been unable to deliver , although the F5 gets close : but Nick admitted after last weekend, that it doesn't get that close...
So we shall all have to become more exclusive I guess, if general interest is waning . It occurs to me that it might be in part that the demographics are moving into the generation who has not really heard 'high-quality' audio by which I mean pre-CD sound.
It does concentrate the mind - about what to order for the future - regarding Bud anyway . Priorities may have to be shifted to gather the pennies for the iron in the shorter term - although we still have Dave Slagle and Pieter Trieurniet to help us out . However , who knows how long it will take to get something from Pieter, if the demand on him rises !
I wonder if the availability and slight reduction in price of the copper GM70's is anything at all connected with this fall-off in interest ?
If valve-based activity does continue at a reasonable rate, then I can't see any tranformers that Bud has made going down in value in the future - they could easily turn into a EBay legend, in time .
because so far solid state has been unable to deliver , although the F5 gets close : but Nick admitted after last weekend, that it doesn't get that close...So we shall all have to become more exclusive I guess, if general interest is waning . It occurs to me that it might be in part that the demographics are moving into the generation who has not really heard 'high-quality' audio by which I mean pre-CD sound.
It does concentrate the mind - about what to order for the future - regarding Bud anyway . Priorities may have to be shifted to gather the pennies for the iron in the shorter term - although we still have Dave Slagle and Pieter Trieurniet to help us out . However , who knows how long it will take to get something from Pieter, if the demand on him rises !
I wonder if the availability and slight reduction in price of the copper GM70's is anything at all connected with this fall-off in interest ?
If valve-based activity does continue at a reasonable rate, then I can't see any tranformers that Bud has made going down in value in the future - they could easily turn into a EBay legend, in time .
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Well pieters making my new ones in record time... May be times are a changing....
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Oooh !
Excellent - what are you getting, Steve ?
Excellent - what are you getting, Steve ?
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but that's just Nick's opinion, and anyway most of the people that bang-on about valves on the interweb havn't heard what Nick has heard in the first place.....IslandPink wrote:Well, we're counting on you to show us the way with the F6, Ed
having said that I hadn't intended this thread to be at all contentious...
just saying.............
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A set of inter stages and outputs for a new px25 amp ... Should have them by august...they have fine met c cores, which Pieter says is a subtle improvement over amorphous.. Time will tell..,IslandPink wrote:Oooh !
Excellent - what are you getting, Steve ?
Hopefully I will have it completed for november...
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Lovely !
Metaglas ( glass ) is that ?
Metaglas ( glass ) is that ?
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**** Edit by Nick, seems HillTech don't want links to their site, so I have removed the link toIslandPink wrote:Lovely !
Metaglas ( glass ) is that ?
http colon slash slash www dot hilltech dot com slash pdf slash hl-fm10-cFinemetIntro.pdf
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Its not glass.. The link explains
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Ah, but it does start out as a glass ; a metal glass - amorphous, due to super-fast colling from liquid. Then it's allowed to develop very small crystals. It's the same as Schott Zerodur glass-ceramic is to Optical Glass.
Very interesting .
Very interesting .
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