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

Tubes get inconveniently hot, but main factor in their renaissance is that they are perceived as being cool.

'''pilots and air traffic controllers commented, “Hey, what happened to all the air...

It must be scary when you are a pilot and all the air is gone.

What if we all heard exactly the same?

@atmasphere 
Sorry man, but vinyl is the absolute most compressed and limited medium on the market. There's plenty of albums out there arranged just to accommodate the technical failings of vinyl. Like, for instance, the lousy bass response near the middle third of the record. Personally I've never heard a record or turntable that had the low noise and garbage of a compact cassette. Maybe they're out there, but my cellphone has a lower noise floor, less distortion, and better dynamic range than any turntable I've ever heard. You're not going to find a guy less sold on vinyl than me. I've heard it. I genuinely don't like it. I hardly grew up with it and never learned to look past it's glaring failures to see redeeming virtues. I'll never look at anything but lossless digital as the best. 

Actually, digital is generally more compressed than vinyl. The technical advantages of digital are theoretical only these days. Take a gander at the Official Dynamic Range Database sometime. Even hi res downloads are compressed. Read em and weep. 😢