FLTWS
Headphoneus Supremus
True, pursuit of the perfect 300B tube and amp is not a wallet friendly hobby.I'm assuming you meant Western Electric? (sorry... I'm anal)
There's also the KR's and Emission Labs that are both very good.
In addition to the iron cost, there's the cost of the 300B's themselves. Good ones are expensive, and inexpensive ones aren't good. In fact, a pair of the good ones cost more than the majority of Schiit's current product offerings.
Maybe we're approaching this the wrong way. Hey @Jason Stoddard , how about a 2A3 amp? Less iron, cheaper tubes, less power (but still plenty enough grunt for headphones), and can kinda sorta sound almost like a 300B....
Neither is an interest to own one of the many high performance automobiles available.
That's why I drive a 2013 left over Nissan Murano I bought in 2014 that currently has just $22,000 miles on it.
I think the chassis is going to fail long before the motor and drive-train.