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Re: -And that tube thing?

"I brought that up with him in 1990 at the summer CES. He really didn't have anything to say to me though, despite the preponderance of evidence to the contrary"

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Tubes are great for high-powered RF transmitters and microwave ovens but not, at the turn of the century, for amplifiers, preamps, or (good grief!) digital components like CD and DVD players. What’s wrong with tubes? Nothing, really. There’s nothing wrong with gold teeth, either, even for upper incisors (that Mideastern grin); it’s just that modern dentistry offers more attractive options. Whatever vacuum tubes can do in a piece of audio equipment, solid-state devices can do better, at lower cost, with greater reliability.
Even the world’s best-designed tube amplifier will have higher distortion than an equally well-designed transistor
amplifier and will almost certainly need more servicing (tube replacements, rebiasing, etc.)

This is common knowledge and the only disputed in audiophiles circles or where is the preponderance of evidence that suggests otherwise.

The audiophile claim is

vacuum tubes are inherently superior to transistors in audio applications

how much support does this claim have outside audio circles in 2006?

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