Factory Tour: VTL Amplifiers, Inc. | Stereophile 

I don't care what any one talks down about how VTL is made, or there factory. This company history and sound quality speaks for it self. This is high end equipment, with real high end sound. And friendly people are employed there. Personally I love VTL. I don't care if it's made in a cave, as long as they keep the quality, build, and sound, they have been doing for over 30 years..

Stereophile, PLEASE, PLEASE do more of these Factory Tours.

I bought a VTL amplifier from the David Manley time when they started their factory at Chino California and up to now I am still using it after 20 + years.

IMPRESSIVE!!! Bea was an Excellent tour guide!!!!

Wish I could afford them! But these videos are really great! A "behind the scenes" tour. Love it! Bea is absolutely amazing!

Impeccable quality control, very impressive company.

Great to see the analog hardware are still being produced and current!!

and the fact that they're using a dCS Rossini as a reference tells me they understand what it takes to be a top of the food chain manufacture.

No doubt about VTL quality! An excellent organized factory and respect for Luke Manley, very skilled engineer as his father David, the -God of valves-!

So nice to see more women in our audio industry! Terrific company!

This is a very amazing factory tour ! I appreciate that you take care about local fabrication. BTW, I asked one to Santa Claus this year. :-)

The name Manley is amp royal , like Bob carver is. VTL is a company that has a reputation for making great amps that I know of for just the last 30 years. Now they're new tech must be even better , I had a used stereo integrated tube amp by them . For a grand , it was built like a tank it had one section or channel on top of the other , like Conrad Johnson use to do. This vtl was like 80lbs.

those videos of 'how they made it', are very interesting. Please, keep doing more videos like this.

Nice vid. LOVE VTL products!

I LOVE that she cares about the quality and country of origin of the parts, down to the base materials.. This is why brands like this are successful... companies like McIntosh, dCS, Accuphase are all examples of this level of pride in one's product and the unified desire to avoid Chinese labor and business practices..

....and thank you, Maxxine, for that really useful public service announcement.

totally cool stuff ... Proudly made in the USA!

Very nice tube amps.

11:40 "autobias isn't working when playing music" lol. still appreciate the tour, well done.

Made in USA, good to see that.

Very nice, Made in USA.

do enjoy the factory tours. and seeing the ti car sub

What I enjoy most out of these vids is how young they make this grandpa of 2 feel. The reviewers from phile are old as the hills. Sure educated listening and experience matter but are 60-70 year old ears ever factor in this? What phile needs is a few 20-30 year old reviewers and maybe a female perspective. I know print mags are mostly for the aged like me but I hate to see it just fade away.

Bea is such a fine lady. So caring too.

so nice

Do they still ship with fire extinguishers?

Cool!

That's cute we got a first full review of how their WMS and Production cycle is done.... as if that's what the people like me who love this stuff want to know.... good thing I work in the MRP/ERP/WMS world and understand what he was saying for the first 5 minutes....

I won’t be surprised if they sound better than McIntosh.

Nothing beyond a diy level.

9:37, FLUX CAPACITOR

So how much do these units cost?

Elody Mountains

Wow

I would propose to introduce a hairnets into assembly process

Paula Wall

Good vídeo,Good report,Good made in USA I'm tired of seeing made in China,

Bea is an extremely arrogant and offensive woman. I spent 30k on new amps and was chastised for not upgrading my preamp.

without her, all stops huh..

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A car or a amp that is the question

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Being made by hand and tested is the norm. Tell me what VTL does different. I’m in manufacturing and owned manufacturing companies and nothing here is different or special. Especially considering VTL charges an arm, leg, and kidney for anything they make. Thanks for doing these audio factory tours... tells me how little innovation these audio companies have.

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One word I wish people would stop using is "cool". It sounds silly when older people use it. And it's overused by everyone.

I know that sound quality of their products is amazing, but frankly if I do not know what kind of company they are, I would consider them as total amateurs. It seems that none of people speaking in this video have clue about electronics. No sign of anybody who actually designed any of presented circuits/PCBs, what is the most critical. Moreover 10% of rejections at the end of production process after all QC during production is totally unacceptable.

Frustrating and annoying interview the gentleman ask the same question a 100 different ways 🤔

QC , great , in this case helps make a great product ... i love smart asian women

I’ll pay for those 500 dollars that’s what they gonna get from me..I’d Rather Travel To See the world.

This is the most amateur late 1970’s early 80’s electronics firm way of working. No computers ….no anti -static grounding…..everybody touching boards right and left without grounding…what a joke! Rega, Naim, etc are modern electronic factories….this is the stone age.

Lol so awkward when he talked shit about china to a chinese

I like VTL tube gear but when SF sends a gay writer to help sell there gear I know it's time to look elsewhere.

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