"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, 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.

The billions of us who happily switched to solid state can't be wrong!
;-)

Except the umpteen thousands who are now waking up and moving back to
'valve and vinyl' now that the penny's finally dropped that they'd been
had!

There's a few bad apples in every bunch - people who simply don't get it no
matter how obvious the relevant facts are.