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Anonymous   02-02-2005 at 06:34:36 AM

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Check out the second article on tubes in the current EQ. Again, nothing that
hasn't been said here before. However, I think it would be easy to get the
opinion, from this newsgroup, that tube gear is a bunch of bunk. It seems that
any time that some new, unsuspecting member of this group inquires about tube
gear, he/she is immediately dissuaded from going in that direction. I think it
is great that "newbees" are warned against bullshit gear, but, if the cash is
available, properly designed tube gear is a great alternative.

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Anonymous   02-02-2005 at 02:35:03 PM
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"Jim Kollens" <jimkollens@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20050201193436.08434.00000429@mb-m06.aol.com...
> Check out the second article on tubes in the current EQ. Again, nothing
that
> hasn't been said here before. However, I think it would be easy to get
the
> opinion, from this newsgroup, that tube gear is a bunch of bunk. It seems
that
> any time that some new, unsuspecting member of this group inquires about
tube
> gear, he/she is immediately dissuaded from going in that direction. I
think it
> is great that "newbees" are warned against bullshit gear, but, if the cash
is
> available, properly designed tube gear is a great alternative.

It was mostly good. However, a couple of the folks made the mistake of
oversimplifying the issue of different spectra in harmonic distortion tests.
The fact is that these tests are really just maps of how a circuit behaves,
rather than exact descriptions of what happens to real music. Sometimes they
correlate with what you hear, sometimes they don't.

Me, I like a good CLEAN tube circuit very much.

Peace,
Paul

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Anonymous   02-02-2005 at 01:53:00 PM
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In article <20050201193436.08434.00000429@mb-m06.aol.com> jimkollens@aol.com writes:

> It seems that
> any time that some new, unsuspecting member of this group inquires about tube
> gear, he/she is immediately dissuaded from going in that direction.

It depends on what tube gear they're asking about. There's a lot of
junk out there today, some with tubes and some without. However, it's
easier to sell junk with tubes.

> if the cash is
> available, properly designed tube gear is a great alternative.

No doubt about that. However, the most common inquiry about tube gear
isn't whether a specific piece of gear is good, it's that they want to
buy a tube fill-in-the-blank, and we ask "why tube?" The answer is
generally "I want a warm sound."

Tubes don't make it any easier or less expensive to get a "warm sound."


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Anonymous   02-03-2005 at 11:46:44 PM
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Jim Kollens <jimkollens@aol.com> wrote:
>Check out the second article on tubes in the current EQ. Again, nothing that
>hasn't been said here before. However, I think it would be easy to get the
>opinion, from this newsgroup, that tube gear is a bunch of bunk. It seems that
>any time that some new, unsuspecting member of this group inquires about tube
>gear, he/she is immediately dissuaded from going in that direction. I think it
>is great that "newbees" are warned against bullshit gear, but, if the cash is
>available, properly designed tube gear is a great alternative.

Much as I like to complain about EQ, I have to say that this is a pretty good
one. They missed talking about why so much of the sound people associate
with tubes actually comes from transformers. And they neglected to explain
what distortion is, too. I know that second seems pretty silly, but you would
not believe the number of people out there who think that distortion only means
clipping. But overall I think it was a job well done.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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