Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first?


What do you guys think?

If transistors came first, and then decades later tubes were invented, would we have any tube amps we would call high end?

Wouldnโ€™t they all fail to reach the height of performance and transparency set by transistor amps?

Best,

E

P.S. I love Conrad Johnson. I'm just wondering howย  much of our arguments have to do with timing.ย 
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Why not, you do regularly as some weird form of pseudo sexual sadism. ๐Ÿ™€

The guy seems quite sanguine to your fixation with him.ย 
Ha, ha. What? ย Engine noise....๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฟโ€โœˆ๏ธ
Ad hominems are weapons of the ignorant. The irony of the use of ad hominems is only exceeded by the lack of skill in application.ย 
Misleading.ย 

Hi, Dave, I saw your mother..in a dog show. ๐Ÿ’‹
Arf, arf!

Well, here I sit, turbine damaged hearing and all, loving my solid state gear.ย 

Time to light up the wheelchair turbine....๐Ÿ™€
โ€œItโ€™s so charming when one troll has another trollโ€™s back.โ€œ

Yes, isnโ€™t it. ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿคก
โ€œTubes make great pizza warmers.โ€ ย -Lee Deforestย 
Pizza warmed with tubes is more natural in taste. -Lee Deforest

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Or a pseudo sexual sadist. -Lee Deforest, channeled by the Kait thingy. ๐Ÿค

I may be dead but Iโ€™m not stupid, nor bound to outdated tech. -Lee Deforest, channeled by Kait thingy.
@analo. โ€œP.T.Barnum is standing next to me, and says there is one born every minute.โ€ ย -Lee Deforest, channeled by the Kait thingy.ย 
Hi, Dave! ย Innuendo doesnโ€™t suit you. I love you, man. ๐Ÿ’‹
If I want any more sheet out of you Iโ€™ll squeeze your head.

Mrs Kait at conception.ย 
โ€œTubes suck.โ€-Lee Deforest, channeled through Kait thingy
Pity the snakes! ย Run, boys, the rendering truck is on the road. ๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ™€
โ€œBoy, the flapping and hissing doubled once the truth came out.โ€ -Lee Deforestย 
โ€œTubes, like me, are dead.โ€ -Lee Deforest, channeled by the Kait thing from reconstituted and revivified artificial atoms. ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ฉ
Man, I love peaches, hamburgers and eggplant! ย Snakes? ย Not so much. ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ฉ
โ€œTubes are for rubes.โ€ -Lee Deforest, channeled by Kait thingy. ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ฉ

Many of us listen to orchestral music, and donโ€™t care for the screeching wail of electrically amplified instruments, which sounds like a cat in heat. ย ๐Ÿ™€๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ฉ
Confuse Us say, โ€œYour pug dumber than hammer.โ€

โ€œPugs, the most disgusting canine on the planet.โ€ ย -Lee Deforest, channeled by Kait thingy. ๐Ÿ™€
Iโ€™m sure you understand tonnage is a volumetric measure, related to vessel lifting capacity. ๐Ÿ™€
Ha, ha! I saw your mother last week in tiajuana. ๐Ÿ’‹

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Wait, a new market for mountebanks: tube dust! ย ๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

I can well imagine that dust from old tubes will imbue new ones with sonic magic. ๐ŸŒฌ
Geoffscat, you are a hoot. But, like a ๐Ÿ’ฉ in a punch bowl, an acquired taste. ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ฉ