Russian bass strings. Any experience to share?

[5StringBlues]

Kick me in the jimny.

 

[WG Plum]

Clean up in the string aisle.

 

[Boneless]

you would be surprised, but the 'Chinese CPUs' are also made in Taiwan, just on the same factory as Baikals or Elbruses.

Not true in the absolute. They have fabs but they're, like, three generations behind the state of the art. So they don't use them for consumer products, at all. Why should they? TSMC will happily serve them.

not true as well, frankly. and it was already noted in this thread.
AFAIR, nor Elbrus or Baikal were certified for military at all, they had MCST (also made by Taiwan) for that.

AFAIK, Elbrus are kept alive exactly for this purpose. The idea is that they will make CPUs for the military, and currently they make (some) PCs for government offices.

 

[Killing Floor]

okay, name just one microprocessor that's currently made in Russia. there isn't any.

Just 1? All Elbrus processors and chips are designed and manufactured in Russia.

 

[butterfingers1]

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Please keep this topic politics free. Thanks.
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Most welcome.

 

[Sandman64]

Trying not to political here, but I'm not buying anything from that country until they smarten up!

 

[bradd]

Here's a set of strings that I got in a used case years ago. Scary looking flatwounds.

 

[Boneless]

Do you really need to have the difference between the workforce and management of an industry explained?

Not everything is mismanaged in Russia. Gazprom is very well managed, for instance. Back in the US, back in the US, back in the USSR the military concerns were top notch, academia was and still is top notch, radio electronics were top notch (and in fact some of their radar arrays and such were state of the art). They were (probably still are) very good in aerodynamics too. The problem with Russia is that it's basically a petrostate with oligarchs holding whatever is valuable.

 

[Killing Floor]

I think Russia was at some point a well regarded producer of titanium in sheet, plate, pipe and tube forms.

There’s a great read if you’re bored sometime. The CIA procured all the titanium for the SR71 project from Russia back in the era when such trading was very difficult. Not on topic but Russia is a refined metals juggernaut . Always has been.

 

[monkeyfinger]

It looks like we can't stay clear of political comments in this thread. It's closed.