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Valve Pre-Amp Questions and Recommendation
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<blockquote data-quote="Ampdog" data-source="post: 948691" data-attributes="member: 144"><p>Pardon me for yielding to the strong temptation to quote part from a landmark article by one of the most respected audio gurus of our time:</p><p></p><p><em>"Most fields of technology have precise measures for excellence: car makers compete to improve miles/hour and miles/gallon, computer manufacturers quote millions of instructions per second and cost per kilobyte, and so on. Any improvement in those objective quantities is regarded as unequivocally a step forward. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>In the field of audio design, many people seem to have difficulty in deciding which direction forward is."</em></p><p></p><p>(Douglas Self, 'Electronics and Wireless World', dated unknown - at the turn of the previous century; or on his own web site.)</p><p></p><p>Who can't believe their luck? Us old coots having studied electronics in the days before one could spell 'transistor' but still have the know-how (and 'how-not-to' in the case)- yah, that includes you too F _D and Allan! (We did have the first semiconductor radios though: crystal sets! And what luck! The Russians at al are still making them bottles . . . )</p><p></p><p><em>"Up all valve protagonists!"</em></p><p></p><p>[The human body is full of valves - not semiconductors!]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ampdog, post: 948691, member: 144"] Pardon me for yielding to the strong temptation to quote part from a landmark article by one of the most respected audio gurus of our time: [i]"Most fields of technology have precise measures for excellence: car makers compete to improve miles/hour and miles/gallon, computer manufacturers quote millions of instructions per second and cost per kilobyte, and so on. Any improvement in those objective quantities is regarded as unequivocally a step forward. In the field of audio design, many people seem to have difficulty in deciding which direction forward is."[/i] (Douglas Self, 'Electronics and Wireless World', dated unknown - at the turn of the previous century; or on his own web site.) Who can't believe their luck? Us old coots having studied electronics in the days before one could spell 'transistor' but still have the know-how (and 'how-not-to' in the case)- yah, that includes you too F _D and Allan! (We did have the first semiconductor radios though: crystal sets! And what luck! The Russians at al are still making them bottles . . . ) [i]"Up all valve protagonists!"[/i] [The human body is full of valves - not semiconductors!] [/QUOTE]
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