• WARNING: Tube/Valve amplifiers use potentially LETHAL HIGH VOLTAGES.
    Building, troubleshooting and testing of these amplifiers should only be
    performed by someone who is thoroughly familiar with
    the safety precautions around high voltages.

The politics

Found and joined this site after being ridiculed for posting a tube amp build on another site...

Not looking to start an episode- but these are my reflections when thinking back to previous acrimony-

Just received my copy of 'the absolute sound' which- in my assessment, is an "If you have to ask the price,,, then you can't afford it" audio connoisseur mag.

Thumbing through 152 pages-
9 inks/mentions SS amps/preamps
11 of tube
4 of unknown

Concluding that SS DOES have solid ground in the industry and is beneficial... My preamp tone control front end is NE552... But high end audio DOES includes tubes... rest my case.
Jim
 
looks like this thread is Lounge material, unless you have anything more to say....yes, schematics and pictures is the language that we all can relate and understand....

please do not bring your troubles with other forums here, we want to stay jolly you know....