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In Reply to: RE: Haven't needed any tubes in a while BUT when... posted by daleda on July 26, 2016 at 12:34:36:
"Seriously - as in you can't be serious - rectifiers are just that as in rectifiers! I told my EE buddy about this belief and he laughed for 5 minutes! Audiophiles hear what they want to hear and 90% of the time it is just BS!"
Seriously! Your EE buddy must have gone to Trump University if he doesn't understand the ways in which a change of the plate supply voltage and a change of the output impedance of a power supply can affect the sound of a tube amplifier.
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