Western Electric 300B (2019)

[pduk]

My order's in now. Reeling a bit from the shipping charge ($220) but what the heck...

Now we wait  ;D

 

[galyons]

My order's in now. Reeling a bit from the shipping charge ($220) but what the heck...

Now we wait  ;D

Shipping to where? Makes a difference!

Cheers,
Geary

 

[pduk]

I'm in the UK. I can probably also look forward to a bracing customs bill

 

[dth31]

It's July:  curious if anyone has actually received their tubes, yet.  Given the reorganized Western Electric's past history, I've been very hesitant to send them that much money, until I hear that others are for sure receiving theirs.

 

[Deke609]

In case anyone is interested, Parts Connexion has a matched pair of Takatsuki 300Bs on sale for $1575 USD. The few reviews I've read of this tube suggest that it is close to the original, pre-80's WE 300B.


I almost pulled the trigger on them, but decided to "cheap out" and get two pairs of the EML 300B for Beepre and Kaiju.


cheers,


derek

 

[Gerry E.]

They haven't shipped yet.  However, after sporadic updates since the pre-order in January, I received an encouraging email yesterday.  Production appears to be progressing and here's what they wrote in the email about the pre-order process:

"In January we introduced pre-ordering as a way for you to reserve 300B’s online. Soon we’ll honor your spot in line, shipping tubes from our warehouse to your front door as they become available. No action is required and you’ll be notified when the fulfillment step of this process begins.  Today, we’re notifying pre-order customers that the online Order Lookup function will be phased out July 15, 2019. By that date, we will export all orders from our online database to our internal database for fulfillment, therefore ending the pre-order phase."

Are they really that close to shipping or is this something to make you feel good?  We should know soon.

Gerry

 

[pduk]

I think it's important to note that they haven't actually taken any money yet. This apparently will be done shortly before shipping, with advance notice and opportunity to rectify any failed payments. Seems to me they are going about things in the right way though I wish they'd hurry up a bit...

 

[pduk]

Well... it's been a long time but guess what turned up today! I'll report back again when I've done some proper listening. But they threw in a couple of really nice extras.

 

[johnsonad]

Cool! I hope they were worth the wait!