Tube Biasing: do I have to?

The arcane technology john mentioned happens to be the most maturated aspect of high end audio.Study your audio history and you will understand that cd's are still in the thumb SUCKING stage... emphasis on sucking.There are many engineers out there that are slowly realizing that digital cannot offer the many characteristics that a well designed tube stage offer.The young pro audio camp loves digital and that is understandable since they have 30 to 40 less years of analog in their brains than the old fart contingent.Find out the bias #'s that your manufacturer intended for your tubes and if your unit does not autobias then ask the vendor like THE TUBE STORE to bias them for those specs.Good luck

I stand corrected...indeed I was thinking of tube matching and of course biasing must occur in the equipment.The issue is what the manufacturer recommends as an operating range and then tweaking the tubes with a voltmeter.Simple enough with my VTL amps.

Lets not forget that an interest in good equipment has nothing to do with ones ability to hear well.An interest serves a myriad of needs,desires and cravings which have nothing whatsoever to do with the sounds we hear.Thats why the pursuit of wonderful sounds is so individual and so unpredictable.