Klarinet Archive - Posting 000546.txt from 1997/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: CD sound...
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:04:22 -0500

At 08:26 PM 11/13/97 -0500, Jerry Korten (or was it Mark Charette?) wrote:
>All high end audio (practically) is now back to tubes. Transistors, like
>CD's, were a
>marketing hype that caused us all to part with lots of money for no good
>reason.
>
At what point in the continuously degrading lifetime of the tubes is
optimum distortion...I mean performance...achieved? Even if transistors
don't sound as good as tubes (an opinion which I do not hold), at least
they sound THE SAME from one day to the next.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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