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Re: techno/audio/phile
by Gordon Hundley at 05:30 29/07/06 (Blogs::Hugo)
Anachronist. :) I certainly don't decry transistors because of their social impact. :P

I suspect that if I had all the money in the world, I'd have some insanely expensive transistor amplifiers and some funky modeling software on a DSP. I think that cheap (in audiophile terms) tubes are more pleasing to the ear than cheap transistors. My hypothesis is that these amp things overload from time to time, and that tubes overloading have a more extreme, but more pleasing distortion. If money were no object, I could have transistor designs that could take extreme transients without overloading, and tubes would just be pretty to look at, but pointless. I could be making shit up, but it would hardly be unknown in the wacky world of audio. :)

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