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Old July 6th 03, 09:32 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
Nick Gorham
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Jim H wrote:


I also managed to find a fuss about...

"12 watt per channel, Ongaku tube amplifier, in which the tubes are
obscure and rare triode power tubes and the transformers are wound
from silver wire with tweezers, by hand"

... I found one 2nd hand, $20,000 per monoblock. So _very_ quiet
stereo bi- amping for ~£130k.

Hmm, I wouldn't have described 211's as rare or obscure, hey ho, thats
marketing for you. Tweezers ?

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Nick