A valentine poem to tubes

What a hoot!

Thanks @hilde45 for starting the thread.

Glass amps are a pleasure                                                                                   That many folks treasure

While sand amps abound                                                                                      And Many prefer their sound

Class D, it's not, my Technics amp
Despite tube lovers that often rant
The sound is sublime
No etch, no grime
To admit as much, they can't
 

Tubes glow red. Mac meters are blue.

If your system has both.

Thumbs up to you.

These are great!

Ok, this is too mean by half but...

There once was a solid-state boob
Who ridiculed fussy red tubes.
Till one day, at leisure,
He imbibed their sweet pleasure
And understood he was the rube.

And the retort from the SS folks:

Tube folks love second harmonics --
distortion -- which they call a tonic.
The solid state gang
Just sighs with a pang
At addictions so desperately chronic.

So clever & funny! Thanks all.

Until Class D

With some fancy DSP

Some solid state

But mostly

It's tubes for me

Roses are red

violets are blue

when I listen to Alice in Chains

my neighbors do too. 

Tubes are nice
They glow in the dark.
With the right wine
A romance may spark.

Tubes glow red and when you are blue

turn ‘em on and the magic ensues.

Can’t tell the difference?

Can’t suzz out the inference?

To me, its not worth the diffidence to transistors fellow audio princesses and princes.

If it sounds good no matter the amount of expence, then your recompense makes sense. 

Roses are red. Violets are blue…… 

if you don’t like TUBES…

well buddy

F.. You. 

If it's not Fleming it's not Belgium.

DeKay