Not a chance. I see great sales for good tube based amplifiers. It is a market that is alive and kicking. Hey, even Esoteric make
a valve amp! And I know for a fact working with tube amp manufacturers, that the Chinese can't get enough of valve based amps
and efficient speakers to go with them.
The survival of such a company is not so much the market wanting them, it is to me, the SQ v price v service backup.
It is a smaller but quite competitive market so obviously the SQ and parts quality has to align with the price to sell in
any quantities.
I am new to the Electrostatic forum, but I can see a micro version of this same market here. At least we have 4 or 5 good
amps that can realistically fight it out for the top spot, which has to be good for the consumer right?
Here's hoping it goes from strength to strength.
BTW I see some saying the market is tiny, and I understand that, based on say 40 x 009s made per month. But there is
a strong following for the 007s and even the Koss models (which probably sell more units than 40 pm),
that may look to buy a BHSE or WOO WES. Maybe it is not as small as we may imagine?