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

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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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It is almost like Keith doesn't understand that I come
from a generation that had nothing but tubes to listen
to for almost 20 years.

And then dropped his trousers for the 'perfect sound
forever' on the latest 'solid state' gadgets because
some marketing **** told him it was better!

No, my ears told me that if a piece of tubed equipment
didn't already sound like **** compared to SS,

In your dreams....

Actually tubes were more like nightmares.

just run the tubed piece for a few months to a
year or two until the tubes got tired.

There was a reason why there were tube checkers in just
about every electronics, hardware and drug store in the
US in those days - the tubed gear stopped working so
well, and a bad tube was a likely explanation.

From what I gather most of those stores had a foot pedal

In your dreams.

on the checker that made every valve look like it needed
replacing - how many times you got took like that, Arny?

Never, because I lived in the real world, not the dream world that you
seem to live in Keith.


In which you are only a figment of my imagination....