The New Western Electric 300b!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by 1KW

Nice to see tubes being made here but 61 k for a pair of amplifier mono block with no track record ? I doubt they will be selling many amps. , poor marketing to start at such a high price for 80 watts per channel. If they were in the 3-5 k price range I am sure they would sell a lot. Really dumb in my opinion, these amps. will have like zero resale value .

It's a connoisseur mono-block set for sure. Considering there are 16 of those 300B beasts that go into a pair and the 300B is the the highest powered class A triode power tube ever developed, to some it is the holy grail of tube amps. 80 watts is actually more than most need since these will be paired with appropriate speakers. I get by with a lot less with not very efficient speakers.

Sure, the $61k per pair is very steep but in high end audio anything goes. The $3-5k price you suggested would not even be possible in China since there are over $12k of 300B alone in the monoblock pair...