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Cokeman
1971
Nov 16, 2017
Kind of wished there was balanced considering this is a $2300 Amp.
ccc888
60
Nov 16, 2017
CokemanAt least half of the price might be paid for the wooden and leather case.
ccc888Look, tiny aluminum and wood tube fences don't grow on trees, and the leather improves the sound quality 14%. Also, non-blind, A to A comparison testing confirms this is 25% better than a similar 4 tube amp. You also get the impedance adjustment fiddly knob like a real McIntosh! As a bonus, you get it all from an obscure (and pretty new, at only 4 years old) Serbian brand that will no doubt be around for a long time, providing customer service and replacement parts, for the decades an amp in the price class should last.
Sarcasm aside, I have no idea if this amp is any good. If it appeals to someone aesthetically, they have the disposable income, and want to take a chance on a newer player, there is no reason they should care what we think :D
Cokeman
1971
Nov 17, 2017
TatteredmidnightOh come on man, everyone knows that the Serbian tube Amp market is huge. They obviously make the best tubes.
(yes I’m being sarcastic)
rastus
1392
Nov 17, 2017
TatteredmidnightIf it were endorsed by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, I might be awed...
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static.overdub
555
Nov 17, 2017
rastusMaybe if the Trans-Serbian Orchestra endorsed it..
rastus
1392
Nov 18, 2017
static.overdubGoing with Siberia...
NEVZ, Novosibirsk, Russia Holding company "NEVZ-Soyuz" has its origin from the Leningrad factory "Svetlana".
During the Second World War, hundreds of factories have been converted from the south and west of the country in Siberia. State Defence Committee, it was decided the strategic relocation of production facilities and the staff of "Svetlana" from Leningrad to Novosibirsk. In August 1941, the Novosibirsk branch of the Leningrad factory "Svetlana" transformed into an independent company. It supplies its products to the front.
November 7, 1941 the plant produced the first batch of products - ammunition (stabilizers for rockets). Six months later, started production of the first profile products.


In the early years of the Second World War, the plant became the most universal of all branch factories and became the sole supplier receiving-amplifying tubes, without which it was impossible while functioning systems, radar, navigation and telecommunication. In wartime, was mastered almost all range of electronic devices produced before "Svetlana": metal and glass receiving-amplifying tubes, generating tubes, small, medium and large capacity, discharge and mercury devices. Later in the nomenclature of production appeared finger (6V) and receiving- amplifying subminiature tubess, for color television.
In the 50-70s in the factory appeared fundamentally new electronic goods . First in the USSR was organized industrial production of titanium metal and ceramic - generator tubes for radar systems , onboard navigation and microwave link.
By the end of the 80s was a factory complex diversified economy with different types of productions: ceramic, glass, steel, thermochemical, assembly.
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Currently, the company specializes in producing generator tubes small and medium capacity and performance in a sintered coaxial waveguide modules, development and production of medium voltage switching equipment, including vacuum interrupters, housings for power semiconductor devices, products of technical ceramics. In 1994 the company was transformed into a holding company JSC "Novosibirsk ELECTROVACUUM plant - Union". http://rutubes.com/category/nevz-tube-novosibirsk-russia/
rastusI wonder if the Serbs used those tubes in the radar they used to shoot down one of our F117s while they were having a genocide in Bosnia&Herzegovina and Croatia...
rastus
1392
Nov 18, 2017
TatteredmidnightI visited the first site for British radar testing and saw the barn where the first units were built (and hidden) in Caswell. It was a Marconi plant then making GaAs devices with one of our systems, tubes long gone. The barn that was just next to the plant, I heard was since taken down.
Trying to find the place was difficult, all the road signs were taken down and never put back up after the war, this was like 1998 when I went... The locals would not acknowledge that there was any factory around and stared at you 'dumb' when you said Marconi. It was just fields, sheep, more sheep and stone walls until I spied the factory down in a field (no GPS then). The Engineer at the plant we met with said the locals never changed, always protecting the factory site, pride, tradition & habit...
RADAR memorial
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Factoid: "Caswell's devices[edit] The GaAs Field effect transistor and the GaAs monolithic ic were invented and developed at Caswell, but what is probably less well known is that scientists on the site were working on silicon integrated circuit(ic) technology almost 18 months before Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working ic at Texas Instruments in Dallas. Caswell technologists also developed the first multilayer ceramic capacitor and a host of other inventions that enabled many of the electronic products we rely on today – including mobile phones, satellite TV and WiFi.[7] " Wiki
rastusThat's fascinating and very cool, nice find.
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