I don't get it. When are people going to get over the mythology of tubes. It would be cool if it had a good tube like a Mullard or a JJ, and was built all point to point with Allen and Bradley resistors and Mallory Caps, and had sweet output transformers. It's just like crappy Valvestate or AVT Marshalls where idiots go, ?ahh, tube!?
[quote author="kubi"]An ATX PSU delivers (-) 12V as the highest voltage, so I guess, it's (+12 and -12V=) 24V plate voltage.[/quote]
But I think they actually use a DC/DC converter to get a reasonable platevoltage. Why would they use 400V caps for a 24V stage?
What i would like to see is a tube amp for reading the harddisk...THAT should sweeten the sound of direct-to-disk-recordings. Hey, this just might be a great product idea, the market is enormous !
[quote author="VacuumVoodoo"]What i would like to see is a tube amp for reading the harddisk...THAT should sweeten the sound of direct-to-disk-recordings. Hey, this just might be a great product idea, the market is enormous ![/quote]
...non of that digital harshness... add harmonic overtones to your zeros and ones.... :shock: :green:
Takamine is advertising 'cool tube' technology for their latest acoustic guitars. Battery powered....yay, prolly a hearing aid tube like that audio technica mic uses. "Dude, I've got that thick tube sound for my acoustic now". Barf!
[quote author="DrFrankencopter"]Battery powered....yay, prolly a hearing aid tube like that audio technica mic uses.
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Audio technica also did it? Which model? I know tube Gefell UM900 uses phantom power.
I've never had chance to experiment with hearing aid tubes. Do they have any advantages as opposed to "plate starving" mode?
How these tubes sound? I would imaginge their target application does not exactly suggests hi-fi.
The new Triton keyboard also has a tube... It made the product look cheap, and anybody buying that is going to pay for something that distorts their sound and makes their audio noisy and dirty. No thanks.
Too bad too, they blew it with this one, but they are capable of making good tube mics. The 4060 is great mic...a bit of a sleeper. Oh, and it has real plate voltage, and a 6922 tube.
I design and build audio gear that contains tubes, because my ears tell me that they preserve the "live" quality of music. So it offends me to see cheap, distortion-ridden implementations of tubes that are produced just to catch the "tube vibe". Don't support this junk by buying it!!!
my original post about the white LED was my obvious attempt at humor, but Ive been thinking about that, WTF were they thinking when they took that photo to market the thing?