If anyone would like to know, vacuum tubes are still a really big deal for audiophiles and for people in the music biz. This is because people who care generally agree that the sound of tube amplification is subjectively better than the sound of solid state amplification, with a few exceptions.
Guitar players like them because tubes produce better-sounding distortion, with a rounded sound-wave rather than the jagged sound wave that an overdriven solid state circuit would produce. All-tube amps are favorites. Some of them are quite old and some of them are new, but they're all pretty darned heavy. Sometimes the pre-amp circuit (the one that gets overdriven) will be tube and then the real amplification circuit will be solid-state, but for that good, slightly crunchy attack, you need all-tube. Also, singers and recording engineers will use microphones with an internal pre-amp which contains an itty-bitty vacuum tube. These sound "warmer." Audiophiles also like the warm sound that tubes give. Some of the most heaviest, most expensive, and esoteric amplifiers are all-tube, rendering units that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Each channel gets a separate amplifier. They turn these things on and leave them on for the life of the unit...if they are seriously bonkers audiophiles, that is. Anyway, the move to solid-state equipment created a "tube crisis" for lots of guitar players and amplifier manufacturers. Crisis was averted when the industry found a ready source for vacuum tubes: Russia. They still had plenty of crap that ran on them! Drew Tulsa, OK -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:22 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Friday (strange) humor ** I used to carry the tester or tube case when my dad went out on repair calls on the weekends to fix people's TVs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 10:53 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Friday (strange) humor ** No, you're not. I can still picture those tube tester machines in the stores. :) Rick On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Tim Widowfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** I hope I'm not the only old guy who was thinking "old tubes" was a reference to vacuum tubes. ----- Original Message ---- From: "Pierson, Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 9:42:32 AM Subject: [ARSLIST] OT: Friday (strange) humor ** You can tell the boss has been out of the office this week. My team, in conjunction with a team that sits with us, took some old tubes and turned cube land into a Chinese temple, complete with both male and female lion statues, as well as a bagua mirror with the old Remedy logo to ward off evil spirits. Hopefully the photos make it through the email. Shawn Pierson Private and confidential as detailed here. If you cannot access hyperlink, please e-mail sender. __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
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