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xray, photomultiplier and laser tubes are still SOTA. PM tubes in particular have a huge number of glass feed through for the intermediate plate voltages.

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Musical instrument amplifiers still use them as well, at least some of them.

Those are Not where the tubes are SOTA.

It is impossible to achieve a proper guitar distortion without pentodes.

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