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Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better?

Yes tubes are more involved and require periodic maintenance. Hybrid tube components need not apply, these are really solid state.

Tubes are better for multiple reasons and yet the world and the trade prefers solid state. Those rare audio shops that are geared toward stereo listening and serious connoisseurs tend to Focus more on tubes.  Those in business who like to improve volumes tend to offer solid state.  All the YouTube channels looking to improve their business tend to be solid state.  Maybe because tubes require much more expertise to sell, and there's lesser and lesser to go around. Solid state is more of a fast food commodity.

Tubes are difficult for businesses due to all the maintenance and complexity so you see it less often. Much much easier to sell hybrids or solid state.

 

 

emergingsoul

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Superman is better than Batman

Trucks are better than cars

Football is better than baseball

These statements sound like what kids would say...

Televisions had vacuum tubes in them years ago. Are the televisions today better? Radios had tubes in years ago. Are they better than today's radios? What about computers? Maybe we should put tubes in them to make them better. I think cars would be better with tubes in the electrical system...

Probably in the distant future... vacuum tubes will not longer be manufactured anywhere in the world. It's not what I want, but tubes are not that great at what they do.....we have technology today that does the job BETTER.

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jjss49

Good point!!!! I will start doing this myself.

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look at jjss49 post

 

"you can usually sus out a troll with a few clicks, takes no more than a minute

click username

click system

click marketplace feedback

click responses and discussions started

in this case... joined in 2020, nothing under system, not a single buy/sell transaction on audiogon, zero feedback -- but has started (not responded, to, but STARTED) 176 threads

patently obvious what this is... it starts with bull and ends with sh*t"

This all you need to know about emergingsoul. This guy is irritating!

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