Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first?

He shall learn the maxim, “As you are now, I once was. As I am now, so shall you be.”

Whoso thou be that passeth by; 
Where these corps entombed lie: 
Understand what I shall say, 
As at this time speak I may. 
Such as thou art, sometime was I, 
Such as I am, such shalt thou be. 

-Maritime51 aka “The Black Prince”

“ The captain made a trumpet of his ass and tooted.“  (ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta)

Canto XXI

Help me out, here. He’s talking about being deaf, right?

Wrong sense-tubes suck. -Dante

Maritime51 it appears, has spent to much time alone...with his old English Literature books!  All hope is lost I’m afraid;(

I would rather guess that maritime51 has visited the first room of the ossuary at the Capuchin Crypt on Via Venetto. It is art, indeed.

That, and many other places, including Svalbard to see the bears!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a SIT just a big power JFET? And I may be wrong, but I think IXIS makes some. I heard somebody talking about how to make a MOSFET produce triode-like curves at BA, but I can't remember who or when.

I think it's safe to say, in any event, that if an amp sounds like this or that gain device, it's not a particularly exceptional amp.

SITs are something different. No-one makes them- it would otherwise be Big News.
I agree with your last comment; to me most transistor amps also sound like transistors. I've heard a few tube amps that sound like tubes- don't like that either. I like neutral.

@Dave. I’m no misanthrope. I had a very complete secondary school education, followed by university, and professional school, then a higher degree. 

maritime51,

Maybe you can make a Tubuary. Some art made of old tubes and then bring transistors to see it. The sign would say

"what you do now, we did when we were lit
just like we are now, you will be obsolete"

Esse est principe.  ⚰️

maritime51,

Stop confusing our humble scribe. Google will start charging him for all these searches.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
- Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan. Now there was a brain 🧠. He thought the way you could travel to a far away galaxy (as in his novel Contact) was via a black hole. Up until Kip Thorne convinced him to change it to worm hole. 

Tubes suck. -Lee Deforest. 

What’s this, the Organ Grinder and his Monkey Show? 

No soft-tissue organs, just bare bones. Nicely arranged. Highly recommended. I think that ticket is about 10-12 Euros.

In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Is that a promise?

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde


I actually went to the theatre to see Interstellar...what a freaking hot mess that was! Kippy was a consultant

dave_b,

Kippy? Now Google will start charging me for all these searches.

glupson

"i just had another post removed. It is not "go figure" anymore. I have been insulted enough on these forums, while attempting to stay polite that having posts removed that come nowhere close to what I have been subjected to is making me wonder what is the point of participating anymore."

You must have a bad "algorithm."  My X wife had the same problem..

Nobody’s perfect. Even the Kipmeister.

My father told me I had to learn Latin as it is not possible to be an intellectual without it. He never mentioned it would not be possible to participate in audio forums without it. Well, it was before the Internet so he is excused. School thought the same so I had Latin.

Nihil dicit. 👀

I once visited Latin America. Fortunately I took Latin in school.

Deforest must have been a joy to live with...like you Maritime51:). If only his 4 wives were around today.

soundsrealaudio,

That "algorithm" needs revision. I am not sure about your X wife, but no bad algorithm is worth keeping anyway.

dave_b,

De mortuis nil nisi bonum.


Four wives included.

This is shaping up to be a good solid diagnosis of 🍑 🍔 🍔

Taradiddle!!

geoffkait,

Erdheim-Chester is the syndrome of the month. Raise awareness.

Simply a supposition...no slander intended.

I am giving serious consideration of changing my diagnosis in the strange case of glubson to Tourette’s. I’m still trying to find the emoji for Tourette’s. Maritime still looks like a good solid 🍑 🍔 🍔

censium paulo asinum

That is something. How likely is it that patrons of some saloon in Tombstone were speaking Latin to each other? I have not been in Tombstone in years, but even then it did not seem likely.

soundsrealaudio,

Vinum bonum, pax in domum. In fact, we used to substitute "vinum" but I am afraid that "algorithm" would go nuts.

💋

geoffkait,

Leave diagnosing to those with more logical and systematic approach. Your way would not get you through CS, much less through anything in real life.

Oh, he wouldn’t know a differential diagnosis from a hole in the ground. Scroll in the ground?💩🐁

How about a mole in the ground?  

How about it.

What if the best part of Geof hadn’t run down the sheet? 🙀. -Lee Deforest

"What if Neanderthals won, and Homo sapiens lost?"

German car industry would be concentrated more towards the North.

And, the cars would be larger. 

What if Lee Harvey couldn’t hit a barn at 100 yards...what if Lee Deforest had gone straight to the transistor....😁

Soon enough we all will have brain implants and there will be no need for either tubes or transistors. Well, not us, in couple of generations maybe.