Two things that are suspected to be quite bad for an audiophile’s hearing. One is sitting in close proximity to aircraft engines all day for twenty years. The other is listening to solid state amplifiers and radios for twenty years. They’re also suspected of causing, you know.... 🍑 🍔 🍔
Yeah, brain implants with tubes, dick implants with transistors. Or would it be better the other way around? They'll figure it out, I don't even want to think about it.
Very tough topic! Its all about a matter of preference. I have several tube amps. All time preference / all season will be a KT-88 output tubes to have a thumping power of the solid state derived from the mosfet amps 70's with the Motorola J transistors that made the hi-fi solid states era incredible. The other side of the tubes is the warmth sound very hard to explain. But I will always have a backup tube amp just in case.
More interesting: What if the Carthaginians beat the Romans...What would the World be like today??? What if the dinosaurs were never killed off? What if Neanderthals won, and Homo sapiens lost? What if Kennedy had left the top on (the car) in Dallas? What if the FBI agent who said a guy was suspicious getting pilot training (one of the 9/11 terrorist pilots) had been listened to. instead of told to forget it. What if Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov had NOT been on board the Russian submarine about to launch nuclear torpedoes at the US fleet during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
That is something. How likely is it that patrons of some saloon in Tombstone were speaking Latin to each other? I have not been in Tombstone in years, but even then it did not seem likely.
soundsrealaudio,
Vinum bonum, pax in domum. In fact, we used to substitute "vinum" but I am afraid that "algorithm" would go nuts.
I am giving serious consideration of changing my diagnosis in the strange case of glubson to Tourette’s. I’m still trying to find the emoji for Tourette’s. Maritime still looks like a good solid 🍑 🍔 🍔
My father told me I had to learn Latin as it is not possible to be an intellectual without it. He never mentioned it would not be possible to participate in audio forums without it. Well, it was before the Internet so he is excused. School thought the same so I had Latin.
"i just had another post removed. It is not "go figure" anymore. I have been insulted enough on these forums, while attempting to stay polite that having posts removed that come nowhere close to what I have been subjected to is making me wonder what is the point of participating anymore."
You must have a bad "algorithm." My X wife had the same problem..
Carl Sagan. Now there was a brain 🧠. He thought the way you could travel to a far away galaxy (as in his novel Contact) was via a black hole. Up until Kip Thorne convinced him to change it to worm hole.
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a SIT just a big power JFET? And I may
be wrong, but I think IXIS makes some. I heard somebody talking about
how to make a MOSFET produce triode-like curves at BA, but I can't
remember who or when.
I think it's safe to say, in any event,
that if an amp sounds like this or that gain device, it's not a
particularly exceptional amp.
SITs are something different. No-one makes them- it would otherwise be Big News. I agree with your last comment; to me most transistor amps also sound like transistors. I've heard a few tube amps that sound like tubes- don't like that either. I like neutral.
@atmasphere Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a SIT just a big power JFET? And I may be wrong, but I think IXIS makes some. I heard somebody talking about how to make a MOSFET produce triode-like curves at BA, but I can't remember who or when.
I think it's safe to say, in any event, that if an amp sounds like this or that gain device, it's not a particularly exceptional amp.
You must have a verified phone number and physical address in order to post in the Audiogon Forums. Please return to Audiogon.com and complete this step. If you have any questions please contact Support.
