Tube amp... rare?!

guess i cant own a acura got a pool table , tube amp :(

wow, these things are rare!?  sweet! 

and here I thought they were still being produced in mass quantities

Any idea what model amp was in that commercial?

What is an Acura?

It's a type of car manufacturer.  Acura is made by Honda; it's their high-end version of a Honda.

They've shown those Acura commercials regularly during the NBA finals. It's part of a larger advertising campaign contrasting the "concrete luxury" of owning an Acura with less tangible luxuries -- high-end audio and expensive watches are the two I remember.

The commercial that introduced the campaign featured three or four different gentlemen discussing their own personal vanities. In this ad, a stereotypical "bearded audiophile" (to whom I personally bear a strong resemblance) looks proudly at his tube amplifier and exclaims "It reproduces frequencies only a dog can hear." I howled with laughter the first time I saw it -- it's such a perfectly subtle needle of our beloved hobby.

The follow-up spot linked in the OP that features only the bearded audiophile, however, is much less successful. The sly, subtle humor is gone, replaced with a twitchy defensiveness and the too-easy one-liner about "real gas."

As a creative marketing professional, I find the campaign to be conceptually brilliant but inconsistent in execution. As an audiophile, I know that while I can't actually hear "frequencies only a dog can hear," knowing that they're present (if inaudible) in my headphones still makes me smile.

Spoken like a true audiophile. That they chose a tube amp kind a worries me. I have one.

"IT" looks like a 6550 based tube integrated amp, one of those Chinese Jobs....I'm surprised they didn't show some mega buck cables hanging down from the back of "IT"

looks like a Cayin.

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Originally Posted by Olias of Sunhillow 

They've shown those Acura commercials regularly during the NBA finals. It's part of a larger advertising campaign contrasting the "concrete luxury" of owning an Acura with less tangible luxuries -- high-end audio and expensive watches are the two I remember.

 

The commercial that introduced the campaign featured three or four different gentlemen discussing their own personal vanities. In this ad, a stereotypical "bearded audiophile" (to whom I personally bear a strong resemblance) looks proudly at his tube amplifier and exclaims "It reproduces frequencies only a dog can hear." I howled with laughter the first time I saw it -- it's such a perfectly subtle needle of our beloved hobby.

 

The follow-up spot linked in the OP that features only the bearded audiophile, however, is much less successful. The sly, subtle humor is gone, replaced with a twitchy defensiveness and the too-easy one-liner about "real gas."

 

As a creative marketing professional, I find the campaign to be conceptually brilliant but inconsistent in execution. As an audiophile, I know that while I can't actually hear "frequencies only a dog can here," knowing that they're present (if inaudible) in my headphones still makes me smile.

The one he's talking about:

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Originally Posted by TheAudioDude 

 

There's real gas in these tubes...

Who would've known!

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Originally Posted by IPodPJ 

It's a type of car manufacturer.  Acura is made by Honda; it's their high-end version of a Honda.

Thanks. Never heard of. 

I know tube amps though.

wow...all this time I thought I had vacuum tubes. Now I know theres real gas in em...

Oh wow, I'm glad someone posted this. I saw this commercial the other day and head-fi instantly came to mind. :)