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by NoMoreNicksLeft 3 hours ago
I was under the impression that they were only made in eastern Europe at this point, former bloc nations. Even then, the demand must be microscopic at this point.
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xray, photomultiplier and laser tubes are still SOTA. PM tubes in particular have a huge number of glass feed through for the intermediate plate voltages.
Musical instrument amplifiers still use them as well, at least some of them.