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    Extreme Home Brew

    DIY vacuum tubes. Long, but worth watching. This guy is an artiste.

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    Last edited by NQ6U; 01-23-2011 at 02:51 AM.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Yeah I saw this a few years ago - wow.
    All that equipment is homemade too by the look of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mw0uzo View Post
    Yeah I saw this a few years ago - wow
    Talk about building from scratch, eh?

    I first saw this a year or two ago but I ran into it again by accident and thought that people here should know about it if they didn't already.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Yeah, you were cruising the Zed, by accident!
    lulz

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Talk about building from scratch, eh?

    I first saw this a year or two ago but I ran into it again by accident and thought that people here should know about it if they didn't already.
    He's trying to copy the WE300B and become a millionaire overnight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
    Yeah, you were cruising the Zed, by accident!
    lulz
    I didn't see it on the Zed, I found it on YouTube. Never even knew it had been on QRZ.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by N4VGB View Post
    He's trying to copy the WE300B and become a millionaire overnight.
    Yeah, he's definitely on the right track for The Big Bucks!
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    I didn't see it on the Zed, I found it on YouTube. Never even knew it had been on QRZ.
    Just got dropped there day before or yesterday ... again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Yeah, he's definitely on the right track for The Big Bucks!
    Make the right tubes and it could be possible to eek out a living with the right business plan too.

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    With all the hand-work involved in making those things, he'd have to charge a huge amount of money for each one. Unless there isn't a mass-produced Chinese or Russian equivalent, I can't see how he could succeed.

    Then again, some of the more fringe audiophiles will spend absurd amounts of money for things they imagine makes their equipment sound better. It's possible that they could be fooled into thinking that hand made tubes were the new gold standard when it comes to audio reproduction. Might work with guitarists as well.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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