Hello valve lovers, wherever you are.
 

"No pentode, bipolar transistor, JFET, or MOSFET has ever approached the
distortion performance of mid-Thirties triodes. etc" and
"If you ever want to put a solid-state designer on the spot, ask them which
transistors were designed for high-fidelity audio applications ... "

Umm - yes. Not my words of course. There is a variety of distortion testing of
valves on the net, though, which may in fact point in this direction - see for
example http://www.enteract.com/~joepage/tubelist.htm
http://users.rcn.com/joepage

These are highly contentious remarks (snip) given this group's most
relentless posters......

Well, events prove you right, but then nothing stops a relentless troll.


.it is impossible to ignore the Kruegerton virus
Every form of 'gathering' has got 'one'. You could try 'killfiling' but I
find too much crap gets dragged through in
the replies anyway.

I came into this group since during Summer RAT and AA are a bit quiet. I was
met with a barrage of posts about Kruegerton, and the essence of the vinyl
split. I know - don't feed the trolls. I was a bit unprepared for the sheer
persistence and malice of Kruegerton, however.

if I didn't have some clown telling me I'm 'wrong' ....As such, one finds
oneself defending one's preference, not necessarily the medium per se......

Well, that's it really - everything gets unnecessarily heated. .

Mention this group to 'audiophiles' who don't hang out here and they laugh
their socks off.

Yes, I can see why - nobody I know hangs out here.

It's in your head to control, perhaps you need to work on your Inner Calm

Believe me, Keith I am trying!

not hard to do with a valve amp and a few choice LPs..... ;-)

I'm in the middle of a build, and getting itchy to hear it. It's absurdly
Meccano - a two tier creation made entirely of 19" subrack parts (I just love
bolting all that shiny aluminium together - the older I get the more I value
mechanical engineering...) Power supply works now. It's completely OTT and I'll
have to use something entirely wierd like 6EW7 into loctal 7AF7s into trioded
2E22s. That should be exotic enough! I currently use the 6EW7+7AF7 front end,
and it's very nice. The directly heated 2E22s look like 300b's - could be
tasty. It's all modular, and connected with D connectors. I'll be able to try
out a whole range of things I've been itching to listen to just by plugging and
unplugging. Nirvana. .

Remember the famous Moody Blues words that start off: "There you go man,
keep as cool as you can......"

(Let me know if you want the whole passage.)

Andy, I love valves and vinyl (NP: one of Swim's Elton John LPs on a little
ss amp though - easily as good as the radio and I get to choose the tunes!)
but I ain't too techy - when I buy valves it's a bit like a 30's Mid-West
dirt farmer going into town on his tractor to buy shotgun shells, salt lick,
barb wire and a new set of KT88s*. Similarly, by using a fiendishly clever
technique called 'cleaning your fekkin' records' I ain't heard a single
'tic' or 'pop' all day, so I also have to have a chuckle when I see that one
keep cropping up!

I will always love them. My music and audio gear is locked off for life. I
don't care what new 'technology' (Blu-Ray?) they dream up - I ain't
interested. I missed out on CDs (thank Gawd) due to having a life at the
time and, thankfully, rediscovering vinyl before I had made some expensive
mistakes with 'digital' music in recent years! When I see the 'V&V bashers'
yapping about how 'bad' it all is I just have a little smile and, sometimes
recall the Moody Blues line, as above!

:-)

*(Notice the 'soft troll' there - how long before someone comes on to say
you couldn't get a KT88 in the Mid-West in the 30's? See
http://www.vintage-technology.info/P...es/GECKT88.htm :-)
















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