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Victor Khomenko

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.

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Topic - Question for Victor Khomenko - Scott 11:33:03 01/31/00 (8)

Re: Question for Victor Khomenko - Victor Khomenko 13:05:11 01/31/00 (7)

ANOTHER Question for Victor Khomenko - Ran 04:58:48 02/02/00 (4)

TLA on Locust near 16th - petew 04:44:30 02/03/00 (1)

Re: Thanks (no message) - Ran 07:57:39 02/03/00 (0)

OK, OK, here goes... - Victor Khomenko 05:47:45 02/02/00 (1)

Re: OK, OK, here goes... - Ran 07:59:36 02/03/00 (0)

Re: Question for Victor Khomenko - Scott 15:23:13 01/31/00 (0)

I remember that event - petew 14:30:53 01/31/00 (0)

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Re: Question for Victor Khomenko - Victor Khomenko 13:05:11 01/31/00 (7)

ANOTHER Question for Victor Khomenko - Ran 04:58:48 02/02/00 (4)

TLA on Locust near 16th - petew 04:44:30 02/03/00 (1)

Re: Thanks (no message) - Ran 07:57:39 02/03/00 (0)

OK, OK, here goes... - Victor Khomenko 05:47:45 02/02/00 (1)

Re: OK, OK, here goes... - Ran 07:59:36 02/03/00 (0)

Re: Question for Victor Khomenko - Scott 15:23:13 01/31/00 (0)

I remember that event - petew 14:30:53 01/31/00 (0)

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