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In Reply to: Question for Victor Khomenko posted by Scott on January 31, 2000 at 11:33:03:
***Hi Victor, just wondering...... you're obviously a film buff, with an appreciation of great cinema. So why hasn't BAT entered the HT market? Every one else has.......Well, not everyone yet. However, we have. We have introduced our AV-10 preamp-processor at the WCES show in January - the one with an optional tube output stage. It is a VERY serious product. We also designed a seven-channel amplifier for Onkyo Integra Research that will be on the market soon (our name mentioned on the front panel). It was introduced in September at the CEDIA.
We are soon coming up with a modular power amplifier in our product line too. We are just beginning our entry, so just you wait. But we have several projects under way. We usually try not to rush, but move deliberately.
However, appreciation for movies and home theater are not the same things. I have a reasonably good multichannel home theater installation with a 100" projector and guess what? 99% of the time we watch old movies on VHS. Many black and white. Most of the time with just the front three channels in Stereo Surround. I forgot when was the last time I used the DVD - when someone was over for a demo.
BTW, old B&W movies look exceedingly good on the large screen.
***And as long as I'm giving you a hard time, what the HECK is that crazy looking output tube in the VK-60?
You niticed, hah?
***The one with the three little nubs on top? It looks like a Dalek, or some kind of salt shaker! Inquiring minds need to know.......
Get a book called The MIG Pilot about the flight of Victor Belenko to Japan in a MIG-25 super-secret jet (in 1975, I believe). Besides being an interesting reading in general, it mentions those tubes. That was the first time the West saw the Great Russian 6C33 Mama-Mia tubes. At some point they became exportable and people started using them here. They are quit good. Robust enough for the MIG vibration and shocks.
It is a low resistance triode - sort of equivalent to four 6AS7's working together. It also happens to be very linear and good sounding tube. But it is temperamental and some companies just could not tame it.
It was designed at Svetlana and produced there for few years (I have several Svetlana-branded tubes), then moved to the Lenin's birthplace - Ulianovsk. Its primary job is in the EMP-resistant voltage regulators.
The tube is plentiful and readily available. Replacement volume is very low.
Please let me know if you have more questions.
Since you recommendeded a couple of Greenaway movies, I was hunting for them and could not come up with anything. I have never seen nor heard of Prospero's Book but dont mind even buying it. I have seen Cook, the thief and am thinking of buying it - if nothing else, it would kill some of my conservative friends. could not find either at amazon. know any sources around Philadelphia? hey,I still dont even know where TLA is. You told me that there were many branches but is it an acronymn that I am supposed to know. If it is, sorry, I dont.Appreciate your advice. Per Mart, I seem to have missed some special scenes in Ronin which I saw as oer your recommendation and enjoyed very much. So, if I have time, I am going to look for those special scenes tonight.
Cheers
at least there used to be one there. I read or heard that they have merged or were bought by one of the chains...West Coast Video I think.The staff had a comprehensive knowledge of film--I was never able to stump them--they literaly had every single film worth watching--or could get it tomorrow, and their eclectic recomendations always pleased me. That's one of the things a big city offers that you can't get anywhere else.
Thanks
***Since you recommendeded a couple of Greenaway movies, I was hunting for them and could not come up with anything. I have never seen nor heard of Prospero's Book but dont mind even buying it.I hate to admit, but I never finished watching it. It is tooo thick for me. It is incredibly beautiful, though. You must be in the right mood for it - it is the ultimate indulgence in visual beauty that I know of, and he is perhaps the greatest master of that. I can't forget the walk through the kitchen in the Cook.
A more "gentle" of his movies is probably Drowning by Numbers. I didn't care much for the Pillow Book, though.
***I have seen Cook, the thief and am thinking of buying it - if nothing else, it would kill some of my conservative friends.Well, it didn't kill me... so there is hope. Emphasis on "frinds" I hope?
***could not find either at amazon. know any sources around Philadelphia? hey,I still dont even know where TLA is. You told me that there were many branches but is it an acronymn that I am supposed to know. If it is, sorry, I dont.I am sorry - I should have been more clear perhaps. Again, as far as I know, they have four brances and the only one we go to is on the 4th street one block north of South - closest to 95. If you call the directory for other addresses, they may be listed under Theater of Living Art. That is how they used to be called years back when they had a movie theater on the South St - now there is some sort of rinky-dink theater there. Too bad, because that used to be THE premier place to go for movies in Phily, better than the Ritz. Tremendous programming, even if the interior was falling apart. There was no movie that they would not show back then. Strange things like Taxi Zum Clo.
***Appreciate your advice. Per Mart, I seem to have missed some special scenes in Ronin which I saw as oer your recommendation and enjoyed very much. So, if I have time, I am going to look for those special scenes tonight.What scenes are you referring to? The super-sexy smile one?
Ronin is one of te best movies of that genre, even if the stuff towards the end loses its steam a bit (the Wit stuff... boring...), but then it regains it in the last scene, thank God. Shows you that good creation is possible in just about any genre, if you have the right stuff and your name doesn't start with an S or L.
Good luck.
Thanks.As for the speciall scenes in Ronin, I do not know since I have not yet had the time to see them. Will try this weekend.
Cheers!!
Wow! Thanks for your answer Victor. I'm delighted to hear that BAT is branching out into surround sound and expecially that you're offering a tubed processor - a wonderful idea, and perhaps a sign that the market is progressing beyond the moronic "dinosaurs stomping in the living room" mentality. (You probably already know that Cary's kit division is bringing a five channel SET amp to market, another good sign that the market is maturing).My personal interest is primarily films of the late 50's and on through the 60's, which are mostly mono, and I find that a good stereo tube amp provides all of the ambience I need to enjoy such films. I do enjoy later flics more in surround, though.
Thanks again for your reply and I'll see if I can located a copy of The MIG Pilot next time I hit the library.
-Scott
and thanks for telling us there's a book about it. I'd love to read the inside story. I also remember reading about the use of tube in the MIG. The way the newspaper wrote the story the West was "surprised" that the Soviets were using such an "outdated" technology...but then later it was explained that the "old fashoned" radio tubes were resistant to EMP, whereas the US planes became expensive bricks when too close to a nuke detonation.Another book I loved reading was Grigori Medvedev's "The Truth about Chernobyl". I wonder which is worse: that some of those heros actually did understand that they were going to die a slow and terrible death because they stayed to put out the fires, or that they truely believed they had adequate protection and safeguards. Yep, those engineers are something aren't they? Tickling the Tail of The Dragon--"don't worry, we know what we're doing..." "oops".
thanks for that post, VK.
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