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I clearly mentioned SS power amps (muscle) which of course excludes Music Man (although they also did a couple full SS power amp models, maybe you also prefer these? 
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And you seem to center the hybrid meaning on obsolete amps out of production for 30 years (including their Peavey copies) while I mention the zillion others, being still made today.
There must be some reason those hybrids fell out of favor while both full tube, full SS and "12AX7" hybrids continue being made
It might be an age problem, I very much doubt anybody under 30 remembers them.
In this latter case, a 12AX7 hybrid and a Nutube hybrid are not that far apart from each other.
The real problem is that Nutubes are not available (except for Korg, that is) ; much worse, no datasheets are available (so it's impossible to design with them) and no price was announced.
Which to make them useful should be no more than $5 or $10 per double triode; any higher and you buy a 12A*7 , with 12AU7 being excellent for lower voltage work (and maybe superior or at least equal to what any Nutube can do)
As of soldering for service work, no big deal if they are reliable and last , say, at least 5 or 10 years.
FWIW fluo displays are soldered in place and last for ages, while normal tubes were always socketed precisely because of short or unpredictable life, to make owners able to replace them on their own.
I still remember "free use" tube testers in shops, and people with brown bags full of tubes testing them.
Of course, I guess nothing of this will happen, because I suspect this is not much more than a sales/marketing gimmick.
Korg might even make them "available" at crazy prices, say $30 to $60 each, not to actually sell them but to make them desirable.
Oh well, let's see where this leads to, there's so many novelties that didn't last more than one NAAMM edition.
Anybody remembers those weird tube amps (say, 3 12AX7 and 4 EL34) where the designer lifted the chassis with his pinky finger?
Just a couple years ago.
They were even patented, and the patent was shown to anybody .
)And you seem to center the hybrid meaning on obsolete amps out of production for 30 years (including their Peavey copies) while I mention the zillion others, being still made today.
There must be some reason those hybrids fell out of favor while both full tube, full SS and "12AX7" hybrids continue being made
It might be an age problem, I very much doubt anybody under 30 remembers them.
In this latter case, a 12AX7 hybrid and a Nutube hybrid are not that far apart from each other.
The real problem is that Nutubes are not available (except for Korg, that is) ; much worse, no datasheets are available (so it's impossible to design with them) and no price was announced.
Which to make them useful should be no more than $5 or $10 per double triode; any higher and you buy a 12A*7 , with 12AU7 being excellent for lower voltage work (and maybe superior or at least equal to what any Nutube can do)
As of soldering for service work, no big deal if they are reliable and last , say, at least 5 or 10 years.
FWIW fluo displays are soldered in place and last for ages, while normal tubes were always socketed precisely because of short or unpredictable life, to make owners able to replace them on their own.
I still remember "free use" tube testers in shops, and people with brown bags full of tubes testing them.
Of course, I guess nothing of this will happen, because I suspect this is not much more than a sales/marketing gimmick.
Korg might even make them "available" at crazy prices, say $30 to $60 each, not to actually sell them but to make them desirable.
Oh well, let's see where this leads to, there's so many novelties that didn't last more than one NAAMM edition.
Anybody remembers those weird tube amps (say, 3 12AX7 and 4 EL34) where the designer lifted the chassis with his pinky finger?
Just a couple years ago.
They were even patented, and the patent was shown to anybody .
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