"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message


You've got more faith with some of these 'hot under the
collar' types than I have Andy - I take a lot of what
they say with a pinch of salt (large one). Most of 'em
have never heard a valve amp and some of the others have
only heard some old *legacy* struggler at best and seem
to forget what some of the transistor equipment from the
70s could sound like.....

And some of us jsut lately spent three days at a
well-known high end audio show, listening to bunches and
bunches of this crap. Did I say that it was crap?

What crap - legacy valve amps or 70s transistor equipment?

Actually, new production valve amps.

Or are you saying there were a *lot* of new valve amps
there?

Yes.

If there were it would tell us something - your
not liking them means nothing to me, almost certainly
nothing to the manufacturers or even the rest of the
world probably....?? ;-)

Fact is the matter is that almost nobody likes this crap - just a few
poorly-educated, well-funded, obsessive-compulsives.

Arny. I don't know what the situation is in your part of the world,
but here in Scandinavia, where people probably have more disposable
income, and hopefully a higher level of taste/expectation, tube amps
have the majority market share at the very top end of the market.

I am told that this group includes professional people, doctors,
lawyers, and many musicians, so they hardly fit into your
"poorly-educated, well-funded, obsessive-compulsives"
category.

No cigar this time, either, Arny:-)

Iain