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Just saw that TubeDepot has a pair of 1930s manufacture Western Electric 300B tubes for sale. Only $19,995... get them before someone else does!
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Today is the day in the US -- Feb 15 elsewhere!

A heads-up for those following the new production 300b tubes from the re-established Western Electric: They will begin taking 300b pre-orders beginning Jan 11 in the US and Feb 15 elsewhere.
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The Duelund wire (and "audio-grade" tinned-copper wire in general) is quite detailed and yields a rich / intense tone -- very engaging.

Duelund makes this wire in both 12awg and 16awg. Relative...

The magic is in the tinned-copper!

In the early 1900s wire manufacturers began tin-plating copper wire to protect it from oxidation. So, the benefits in audio applications were, perhaps, a happy...

NOS from 1950s era manufacture has been bought-up a while ago and is now is pretty much non-existent. What there is available online from this vintage is mostly salvage (careful if buying as there...

Happy New Year!

Best Wishes to all for 2019!

Merry Christmas / Happy Hollidays and best wishes for the New Year !!

Great information; thanks for posting the link.

While thermo-mechanical creep deformation of soldered connections is an important issue in microelectronics manufacturing, it is interesting to...

Joe -- Thank you for that nice welcome!

Thanks @Nikhil. We are located in New York State.

I see from your signature that you are also a fan of the Western Electric KS-13385 wire ...and very nice to see you are using it with a...

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Have been a reader of this forum for a while now and thought it was high time to join given the extremely knowledgeable and experienced membership. The hope is to continue learning and...

Assuming that you are using copper wire as the conductor... In a well designed AC plug, the mechanism firmly securing the stripped wire ends inside the plug should provide full contact surface area...

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A shield, connected at both ends, conducts a current which contains both the (-) audio signal and any EM/RF interference. This is one reason many have employed the topology of a twisted-pair...