[Engineer[_2_]]

Hi, Vacuumlanders,
It''s not often that a mass media news item relates to what we like!
On Dec 29, 2010, the Canadian Financial Post newspaper lead with an
article on Plitron, a Canadian company that makes toroidal
transformers, having bought a new coil winding machine from Universal,
the US manufacturer. There's a big front page picture, too.
See http://www.financialpost.com/SPEND+S...762/story.html
Not only that but the article goes on to say that Plitron makes
toroids for Bryston, another Canadian manufacturer of high end audio
amplifiers that most of us know and love. There's stuff about
quality, productivity and investment in process, etc... all good news
for NA manufacturing and signs of life in the Canadian sector, too.
Nice to hear!
Disclaimer: I don't own any stock in, or work for, Plitron or Bryston
and, indeed, Bryston stuff is well over my pay grade!
Happy New Year!
Cheers,
Roger

[Andre Jute[_2_]]

On Jan 2, 6:49*pm, Engineer wrote:
Hi, Vacuumlanders,
It''s not often that a mass media news item relates to what we like!
On Dec 29, 2010, the Canadian Financial Post newspaper lead with an
article on Plitron, a Canadian company that makes toroidal
transformers, having bought a new coil winding machine from Universal,
the US manufacturer. There's a big front page picture, too.
See *http://www.financialpost.com/SPEND+S...762/story.html
Not only that but the article goes on to say that Plitron makes
toroids for Bryston, another Canadian manufacturer of high end audio
amplifiers that most of us know and love. *There's stuff about
quality, productivity and investment in process, etc... all good news
for NA manufacturing and signs of life in the Canadian sector, too.
Nice to hear!
Disclaimer: I don't own any stock in, or work for, Plitron or Bryston
and, indeed, Bryston stuff is well over my pay grade!
Happy New Year!
Cheers,
Roger

Plitron operates at the top end of the market. They sell very nice
transformers. I have power supplies custom designed by Menno van der
Veen and built by Plitron which they now catalogue, suitable for
powering my 80Wpc SE Millennium End SV572-3 & -10 amp, an amp well
above Bryston's paygrade. Between them, I would say that Plitron and
Amplimo, who made the matching output transformers, very versatile,
are the top toroid transformer makers in the world for audio
amplifiers. If anyone plans to spend lots of money on a circa kilovolt
broadcast-tube amplifier, I can publish the transformer model numbers
again. (There are taps for all kinds of applications both in the power
supply and on the output transformers. That's how Menno designed them,
to be good as experimental gear.)

Andre Jute
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