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This ad has been airing for the last few weeks. Makes me laugh every time because it reminds me of the typical audiophools (not to be confused with the few actual audiophiles out there) we come across. You know, the $400 wooden knob, oxygen-free cable, special power cords and outlets (while the house wiring remains the same, cheap stuff), frozen tubes and the likes.

The 'crossover coaxial' is funny, but the matter-of-fact, armchair expert statement that "There's real gas in these tubes" epitomizes the parroting of false information, especially as read on the 'net:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe62LFmYMCY

Another version with the same tube guy near the end:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RRGIWp2Kgw&NR=1

That pool table is nice. You can tell the character is a the audiophool version of a collector by his assignment of importance to the number.

The actors nailed it.  :)

 

Conrad Johnson tube power amp. Nice amp. Over priced but nicely engineered amp nonetheless.

6550's?  KT-34's

I had an Acura.  It was a great car.  Mechanic dropped it off the lift and totaled it. That was the end of the Acura.  Mechanic was not underneath or it would have been the end of him too.

yea i saw this a couple of times too. don't know what the tubes are i thought they looked like 813s but there's no plate cap and they aren't tall enough.

I Love that ad and my Acura. First one got nailed in a rear end and I walked away w/o a scratch and drove it home.The Saab that hit it was totaled and had to be towed.
The tubes look like they have a starboard list to me.
Carl
/KPD

"It reproduces sounds only a dog can hear"  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

Looks like a guy from Skowhegan we know...

A young version of TRON???

Fred

Looks like a cheap azz China ebay special to me.

I'd strip that sucker out and build up something good on the chassis.

Joe N5KAT

yea i thought it kinda looked like the tron too. he could probably build something similar to that amp that probably sounds much better than it might, but may be a little bizzare looking

What a great commercial. It is excellent. Yeah the China thing. Next they will make Johnson Desk Clones in China for the original price.  

The China stuff seems to be getting better and there is an emerging local tube audio hobby scene, but it is not the pinnacle of the market.

The point I was trying to make is that if they were trying to portray a misguided, hyper-anal, cork sniffer tube dude, they should have picked an amp he really had to pay through the nostrils for... preferably something costing at least $10k and made in Italy.

Joe N5KAT

Some of those things even look like an espresso machine.

Perhaps this is the amplifier they should have used:

http://www.alumrocktech.com/

For the stereo version, only $85,000!  But with this caveat:

"Price includes demonstration at and delivery to your location within the continental U.S. upon payment of a deposit to cover time and travel expenses.

THIS AMPLIFIER IS NOT A CONSUMER PRODUCT. It is offered only to organizations or individuals having experience with high voltage equipment. THE VOLTAGE WITHIN THIS AMPLIFIER IS LETHAL. "

So why Look down on what you can't Have...Get over it..LOL 8)

Looks like a T-368 Junior.

Looks to me like Chinese or Ruskie KT-88s... not a C-J looking amp... from that angle... looks import to me.
Old TungSol style bottles.

But who knows?

Yeah - "real gas" in those tubes!!

                       _-_-bear