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Date: | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:35:42 -0400 |
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Of course, I'm playing with CD's these days, which are all based on
solid-state equipment. Not truly as nice as listening to analog, but those
replacement needles are going to get hard to find for my turntable...
But I know what you mean. The sweetest sounding shortwave receiver that I
ever had was a Hallicrafters S-108 which was a seven tube receiver. As a
communications receiver, it's sensitivity was only average, and the
selectivity and image rejection would probably not be acceptable by today's
standards. But, tune in a station playing music on the AM broadcast band,
and you wouldn't believe AM could sound that good! It was all in the audio
frequency response of the audio amp--it sounded like a million bucks! I
wish I had hung onto that radio!
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 03:23 PM 9/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Darn straight!
>
>It's hard to beat a vacuum tube in Class A linear amplifier service and
>high-end audiofiles are going back to them. And it's hard to beat a tube
>amplifier for dynamic range.
>
>I must admit that although it's probably imagination, I find tube radios
>-- even tube portable radios -- have for me a flatter, better sound than
>transistor sets although there are some mighty good ones these days.
>
>Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >
Louis (Kim) Kline, A.R.S. K2LKK
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