These amps should be verboten!

Bas Horneman · 09:58 PM

They use up half the world's tube supplies in each amp!

preamp four phono

HollowState · 8th December 2011, 10:14 PM

I say good! Load them up with Chinese junk tubes to get rid of them. But unfortunately they have an endless supply.

tinitus · 8th December 2011, 10:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HollowState

I say good!

me too, but fore the opposite reason
keeps production of new tubes alive

v4lve lover · 9th December 2011, 02:24 PM

that is indeed slightly *&*&*^*& to say the least WHY . has the muscle car mentality got to us to ? what happened to small and elegant >? a typical op amplifier line stage will outdo that in every way whit 1-2% of power consumed

geez .. WHY burn up all the nice stuff at once ?

yagoolar · 9th December 2011, 02:29 PM

Those are "spring|summer generators" or entropy hyper fast accelerators!

8th December 2011, 10:14 PM	#2
HollowState diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Taxland, New Jersey	I say good! Load them up with Chinese junk tubes to get rid of them. But unfortunately they have an endless supply. __________________ "The supercomputer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required." ~ Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University

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9th December 2011, 02:24 PM	#4
v4lve lover diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2010	that is indeed slightly &&^& to say the least WHY . has the muscle car mentality got to us to ? what happened to small and elegant >? a typical op amplifier line stage will outdo that in every way whit 1-2% of power consumed geez .. WHY burn up all the nice stuff at once ?

9th December 2011, 02:29 PM	#5
yagoolar diyAudio Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Mazowieckie, Jozefoslaw	Those are "spring\|summer generators" or entropy hyper fast accelerators!

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