Yes, as long as we’re content. That’s what matters.
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Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first?
What do you guys think?
If transistors came first, and then decades later tubes were invented, would we have any tube amps we would call high end?
Wouldn’t they all fail to reach the height of performance and transparency set by transistor amps?
Best,
E
P.S. I love Conrad Johnson. I'm just wondering how much of our arguments have to do with timing.
If transistors came first, and then decades later tubes were invented, would we have any tube amps we would call high end?
Wouldn’t they all fail to reach the height of performance and transparency set by transistor amps?
Best,
E
P.S. I love Conrad Johnson. I'm just wondering how much of our arguments have to do with timing.
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dave_b https://www.audioasylum.com/messages/shady/2901/machina-dynamica-aka-geoff-kait-infringes-on-my-inte.... Im sure there’s more but I’m done going to the bathroom now!! >>>>Are you stupid or something? How could I have been infringing on HIS intellectual property? It was a photo of MY clock? Hel-looo! Anybody in there? Knock! Knock! 😛 Please note in the discussion linked to the best question was asked by Wellfed. |
Dave, Thanks for posting one of the more bizarre, snarky and uninformed (notice I didn’t use the word ignorant) articles I have observed lo all these years. Matt obviously has some axe to grind. Who know’s why? Where do all these lonesome people come from? What gets overlooked sometimes, The Intelligent Chip was the most talked about audio tweak in audio history the year it appeared at CES in 2005. |
glupson "...a dyed in the wool naysayer slash pseudo skeptic." It is not nice that wool-clad naysayers slash pseudo skeptics. This is just a non-sense hobby. No need for violence of that magnitude. I was fairly certain you’d get the wool reference since you’ve obviously been following the wrong, you know... 🐑 🐑 🐑 🐑 🐑 |
This seems apropos, you know, from the point of view of the solid state believers. “The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning. In other words, a positive or negative prophecy, strongly held belief, or delusion—declared as truth when it is actually false—may sufficiently influence people so that their reactions ultimately fulfill the once-false prophecy. Self-fulfilling prophecy are effects in behavioral confirmation effect, in which behavior, influenced by expectations, causes those expectations to come true. It is complementary to the self-defeating prophecy.” |
I almost agree with Elizabeth. It is nostalgia. But it’s nostalgia for listening to what voices and musical instruments really sound like. You know, instead of thin, two dimensional, airless, synthetic, bland, metallic, generic, irritating and hard like you get with solid state. It’s like organic food vs non organic food. |
Actually, to be completely up front about it, I do not ridicule Asperger’s or anyone who might have it. I might even exhibit a few symptoms myself from time to time. Asperger’s symptoms appear to your humble narrator to be a lot like symptoms of our old friend, audio nervosa. Look inside. 👀 Famous Autistic People Dan Aykroyd Hans Christian Andersen Benjamin Banneker – African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist, and farmer Jodie Foster Robin Williams Tim Burton Bobby Fisher Stanley Kubrick Lewis Carroll – Author of “Alice in Wonderland” Henry Cavendish – Scientist Lee Deforest - Scientist Albert Einstein Abraham Lincoln |