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Originally Posted by telefunky  Its about 50/50 for me. Come on though, tubes are obsolete technology?
I actually know someone who thinks "treating the CD" is real....
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If you want
fidelity -- it's easier and cheaper to get with transistors. You can get a very high fidelity tube system but it will produce more heat and its performance will deteriorate faster and require more maintenance.
Tubes are used in
recording chains typically for the
opposite reason -- they are used to impart small (or not so) amounts of saturation distortion for extra color or character.
Now, that's not to say that cheap solid state circuitry is not frequently designed with serious compromises --
just as cheap tube circuitry was back in my day. (You should have seen my first stereo amp in the stereo I built in the early 60s with my allowance and lawn and car washing money. Hoo boy. It was pretty sad. Hum, tube microphonics, you name it. But what do you want for $14, new. Then again, that 14 bucks would have bought five tanks of gas at the U-Serve for the VW I'd own a few years later).
What other problems do you find with those 10 myths?
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