I searched for Cicadas for a while (including some WTB's on Audiogon and the like) but no dice. Per Craig, the amps were designed to be top of the line but the speakers were designed for a budget and to that end they did have some serious limitations, though Marv has used the drivers in his own OB project with good results.
The 304TL isn't totally silent. When I talked to Craig two years ago about remaking it (not happening) we discussed a workaround to the noise added from air cooling. There's some cool stuff out there nowadays that was not really an option at the time, but ultimately Craig is not going to get involved, both due to the almost dying of electrocution story and due to the fact that he'd have to charge 20K minimum and sell a lot more than he did back then to make it worth it with the custom domes.
The 304TL is more comparable to the 833 tube that Wavac has in their 200K amps than to the 845. The 845 is more like a souped up 45 (or 8 of them.)
The 304TL is a beast of a tube. It was designed for use on aircraft carriers, powering massive speakers that would communicate with planes before they used today's modern tin-can-and-string approach. It is rumored that they 304TL powers plutonium rock band Disaster Area's PA system
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It looks like the pair I posted pictures of finally
listed recently, for 55K, no clue if it sold. It was originally $20,000. This pair originally belonged to Joel Marshall, and his cleaning lady (if I remember the story correctly) blew them up after turning the bias knobs on the top of the amp all the way down thinking they were volume knobs (which are on the front.) They were repaired and sold to Omar who ran them in a pretty killer setup with those horns.
Moth is not coming back any time soon, at least not with Joel's involvement. Its a shame as they made gear that has had no rival in this market period. Joule Electra is stylistically the only brand I would label as similar.
