Question: In your opinion, will tube amps still be manufactured 50 years from now.

[miroslav]

Well...I hope so.

 

At any rate...I'll have my tube amps for as long as I keep playing/recording.

And...I'm already building a small stockpile of tubes.

 

So...I ain't too worried!

[Shoes]

They're starting to spin out vinyl again.

People never stopped riding horses and you can still buy corn brooms absoloutely every where.

You can still buy a piano and we use more paper now than ever before in this paperless society!

 

If it appears as though there will be a shortage of tubes available... well I'll be the first in line to start producing them!

Those and phono cartridges!

 

How long until we stop using glass beer bottles?

[synthetic]

Looks like I spoke too soon. All the modeling amps need is this stuff:

 

Tube-o-lator

 

[Museeip]

Tube amps will be around, but IMO they will be rare, hard to find tubes for and for the rich. Kind of like cars, I accept and hope in 50 years we're running on hydrogen, but If I'm rich I better be able to get gas for my weekend drives in the Viper I would buy!...that is if I can still drive in 50 years...LOL.

[LPCustom]

Originally posted by Guitars are like shoes...But louder:

They're starting to spin out vinyl again.

They are? Who's doing that? Tell, tell.