Mark wrote: [in the subject heading] >Transistors suck [and in the body] >But are exponentially better than vacuum tubes.
Vacuum tubes do have one big advantage over transistors; transistors are susceptible to EMP, but vacuum tubes are not. A friend told me that after the fall of the Soviet Union, we found out that a lot of Soviet military tech used transistors but had vacuum tube backup. The Soviets had continued to develop vacuum tube technology and had managed to greatly reduce their size. Once the Soviet Union fell, those miniaturized vacuum tubes made it to the US and are in part responsible for the resurgence of tube amps. Does anyone know if this is true? <trivia mode>By the way, the reason a guitar distorted through a tube amp sounds better than a guitar distorted through a transistor amp is the way the overtones of the sound are distorted. One distorts the odd overtones and the other distorts the even overtones. I don't remember which is which, though...</trivia mode> Reggie Bautista _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
