Arny said:

"Cal Cerise" wrote in message
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Among people who buy expensive commercially built "High End" stereo
equipment, roughly a third to a half-very roughly-buy some tube
equipment and about a fifth buy nothing else. A tenth , very roughly
again, listen only to analog (or 'analogue'), i.e. phono records and
very many of these (though not all) have equipment with no
semiconductors at all or not in the signal path. These are rough and
unscientific figures but I'd bet they are pretty close: three dealers
I've asked pretty much concur.

Just guessing here, but all 3 dealers probably carried tubed equipment.

Just for reference, there are at least 10 stores in my area that are
arguably selling high end audio. Only one of them carries tubes and he has
the smallest store of the bunch.

Perhaps you would like to pick a city that's a bit more culturally
sophisticated than Detroit as an example.

Boon