"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:33:08 +0100, "Ruud Broens"
: wrote:
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: "Ruud Broens" wrote in message
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: recently, the Pinkerton Parliament ruled:
: "My 'differences' with tubies are not that fundamental in the sense
: : that I recognise tube amps as very attractive to the hobbyist, but I
: : will point out the technical shortcomings, and I will blow away the
: : smoke abd nmirrors, and general bull**** surrounding them. As for
: : 'tubecraft', I'm sorry, but this technology was fully mature forty
: : years ago, pretty much when valves became obsolete in audio
: : amplifiers. If you want to play with different circuit configurations
: : to see what they do, that's fine as a hobby, but optimised tube
: : circuits have been done to death for *decades*."
:
: as PP plays the sound of silence :
:
: thanks for admitting there were no technical shortcomings
:
: None that haven't been previously discussed to death, certainly. After
: all, were you expecting some *new* shortcomings to appear in a
: technology that peaked half a century ago?
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: Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

it is always more interesting to have some specifics to talk about,
Stewart . Let's take this one, for instance:

an OPA2604, with distortion cancelling cicruitry build in,
needs a *thousand* times more feedback to be even a
half decent match for a handfull of hybrid tube-SS parts.

comments ?
Rudy