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hello. new here, but not in general. published an underground audio mag in the 1990s (print, of course, and ad-free to boot), started tinkering because i like(d) to, bought a soldering iron to make my own cables, yanked out all RCA connectors and replaced them with CAMACs because these are mo better (just to find out later that just about anything is mo better than RCA connectors…).
got interested in tubes because i could grasp how they work (contrary to solid state which remains a mystery to me to this day) and started building stuff with them.
at the same time i got in touch with Joe Roberts because at the time he published Sound Practices which was sorts of a role model for my mag. Joe invited me to join his mailing list on the Internet (which back then was synonymous with Compuserve), which i did around 1993 – which means that i have been on the Joenet for 30+ years and that i've been building tube amps for 30+ years.
in all these years, i have piled up old stuff like triodes from DHT to ceramic planar, transformers from tiny to huge, boat anchors of all sorts (some of them still in use like my Siemens D2040 or my Fluke 507DR power supply), coined the name ETF (not knowing that most people read that as Exchange Traded Funds) and co-organized the first three European Triode Festivals, and i have collected more than 1200 different versions of Fever (probably the biggest collection in existence, but who knows? this leads you to a searchable but not really up-to-date list of my cover versions.)
these days i'm trying not to buy any new audio stuff, but instead use the piles of hardware. i'm still more of a tinkerer that is already happy if a new contraption survives the first smoke test and produces music for more than a millisecond.
got interested in tubes because i could grasp how they work (contrary to solid state which remains a mystery to me to this day) and started building stuff with them.
at the same time i got in touch with Joe Roberts because at the time he published Sound Practices which was sorts of a role model for my mag. Joe invited me to join his mailing list on the Internet (which back then was synonymous with Compuserve), which i did around 1993 – which means that i have been on the Joenet for 30+ years and that i've been building tube amps for 30+ years.
in all these years, i have piled up old stuff like triodes from DHT to ceramic planar, transformers from tiny to huge, boat anchors of all sorts (some of them still in use like my Siemens D2040 or my Fluke 507DR power supply), coined the name ETF (not knowing that most people read that as Exchange Traded Funds) and co-organized the first three European Triode Festivals, and i have collected more than 1200 different versions of Fever (probably the biggest collection in existence, but who knows? this leads you to a searchable but not really up-to-date list of my cover versions.)
these days i'm trying not to buy any new audio stuff, but instead use the piles of hardware. i'm still more of a tinkerer that is already happy if a new contraption survives the first smoke test and produces music for more than a millisecond.
