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Why Can't The VF14M Be Made Again?
boogietube:
With all of out modern technology, why can't the famous VF14M be manufactured? Is it a question of process? economics?
It seems to me that someone should be able to do this.
Sean
compasspnt:
This has been discussed here several times before.
Not going to happen.
It's all of the above and more.
Klaus Heyne:
...and, as had been discussed before, the devil is in the detail:
super-rare materials, obsolete manufacturing processes, loss of institutional memory, lack of a corporate cooperation between a huge tube maker (Telefunken) and the, at the time, largest condenser microphone manufacturer in the world (Neumann).
johnR:
The thread in the following link contains a general discussion of why tubes can't be made like they used to. Many of the reasons also apply to the VF14M:
http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/m/438090/0/?srch= tube+manufacture#msg_438090
jpaul_bordon:
Was the VF-14 (M or non M) ever used in a piece of equipment that we could be looking for in yard sales or electronic swap meets here in the USA? I guess I am asking for non microphone factory installed applications. I have picked up more than one non functioning old organs for the near NOS vintage tubes!
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