High end audio-philes are a strange crowd. There is a select group of rich people who REALLY get into this - they have high-end turntables and speakers that rest on air cushions so that no distortion from other vibrations mess with the noise.
There's a certain amount of quackery to be found with some of them too....if you don't believe me check this out: http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Shuller Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 1:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: Friday (strange) humor I guess vinyl is better...until the tonearm pops off at the end of 1812! On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE wrote: > Yeah...while on that note, there are still many old school enthusiasts > who make strong arguments that in many, many applications the best > analog devices still trump the best digital devices. > > I have friends who insist that the sound produced by clean vinyl on a > top-of-the-line turntable still beats the sound produced by the best > CD player. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Shuller > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: Friday (strange) humor > > ** > If anyone would like to know, vacuum tubes are still a really big deal > for audiophiles and for people in the music biz. This is because > people who care generally agree that the sound of tube amplification > is subjectively better than the sound of solid state amplification, > with a few exceptions. > > Guitar players like them because tubes produce better-sounding > distortion, with a rounded sound-wave rather than the jagged sound > wave that an overdriven solid state circuit would produce. All-tube > amps are favorites. Some of them are quite old and some of them are > new, but they're all pretty darned heavy. Sometimes the pre-amp > circuit (the one that gets overdriven) will be tube and then the real > amplification circuit will be solid-state, but for that good, slightly > crunchy attack, you need all-tube. Also, singers and recording > engineers will use microphones with an internal pre-amp which contains > an itty-bitty vacuum tube. These sound "warmer." > > Audiophiles also like the warm sound that tubes give. Some of the most > heaviest, most expensive, and esoteric amplifiers are all-tube, > rendering units that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Each channel > gets a separate amplifier. They turn these things on and leave them on > for the life of the unit...if they are seriously bonkers audiophiles, > that is. > > Anyway, the move to solid-state equipment created a "tube crisis" for > lots of guitar players and amplifier manufacturers. Crisis was averted > when the industry found a ready source for vacuum tubes: Russia. They > still had plenty of crap that ran on them! > > Drew > Tulsa, OK > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: Friday (strange) humor > > > ** > I used to carry the tester or tube case when my dad went out on > repair calls on the weekends to fix people's TVs. > > ________________________________ > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 10:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: Friday (strange) humor > > > ** > No, you're not. I can still picture those tube tester machines in > the stores. :) > > Rick > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Tim Widowfield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ** > I hope I'm not the only old guy who was thinking "old tubes" was a > reference to vacuum tubes. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "Pierson, Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 9:42:32 AM > Subject: [ARSLIST] OT: Friday (strange) humor > > ** > You can tell the boss has been out of the office this week. My > team, in conjunction with a team that sits with us, took some old > tubes and turned cube land into a Chinese temple, complete with both > male and female lion statues, as well as a bagua mirror with the old > Remedy logo to ward off evil spirits. > > Hopefully the photos make it through the email. > > Shawn Pierson > > > > Private and confidential as detailed here > <http://www.sug.com/disclaimers/default.htm#Mail> . 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