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Originally Posted by WTMNMF  It seems to me that the standard approach here would be to make an arrangement with JJ for presorted tubes. Even if they wanted to increase the price by 50% or something for the service, it would be worth it and you would just adjust your price to reflect that. Were talking about rather pricey stuff to begin with here, so a 10 or 15% bump in the purchase price of a unit is not unreasonable. |
But if you can make a unit that sounds as good (or maybe better) with xBA6 tubes for a fraction of the cost, and you can match tube pairs to get a very low rejection rate (instead of tossing a whole tube because the two halves don't match right), why wouldn't you just do it? Although the equipment I design does not require matching or component selection, I can very easily understand why there would be a reluctance to change something that's in production, works, sounds good, and offers a manufacturing advantage.