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Originally Posted by benman94
The 12 inch tubes are getting quite a bit harder to find than the 10 inch tubes. The last good "loose" 12LP4 I found cost me $75
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I sort of suspected this because I figured that there simply were more 10" tubes out there. Reasoning is that the 10" tubes were sort of a common thing for a fair amount of years. I think that once they more or less perfected the electroinics, they started going for larger size, so you see the 12" and the 19" come along, not to mention the monolithic tubes mounted in DuMont Royal Sovereign sets somewhere around 30".
So you have the years of 10" being popular and just a few years of the larger round tubes, then everything goes to old ugly rectangular shape. Guess I better not put too many hours on my !2"...