I think this is spot on. A guy who will spring for $48k monoblocks isn’t too worried about a few thousand here and there to keep it in tubes.admin wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 6:14 pm Interesting. The price of the 108a's is truly up there. Tubes are very expensive now but I wonder how much of an issue it is for a potential buyer who is willing to spend $70k on that amp. Over here in the states is a more "modest" $48k, but still, the air gets thin at these heights. I'm sure the 108a's sound amazing and there are some people for whom "money is no object."
Solid State is not immune from supply chain issues either. When SS bites the dust, it bites it hard. I’m not ready to abandon tubes yet … and I’ve thought about this picture long and hard.
Before the current crisis ARC and CJ were selling their factory KT150s for big prices, and the hard core deep pockets guys were buying anyway. ARC was charging over $1000 for a matched quad.