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In Reply to: RE: Al, Gusser, andy posted by smart845 on December 08, 2014 at 23:51:03
If you're getting tired of these threads , don't read them . Narcissists who spam one forum after another are the bullies and they fair game . What would you prefer : common sense , reason and logic or junk science and dogma ? I suspect tapping tubes is BS . How on earth does the sound a cold tube make when tapped relate to one that is hot or with music playing through it ? Especially if it has a filamentary cathode such as a 5U4G or a 2A3 . Remember these devices are hand-made
I think you'd better cancel your custom tube order with EML , you only bought two and one may sound different to the other :)
Al
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Only two V4s plus two standard 4 pins. These are globes by the way and too late to canceI but hey ho just have to see what comes.
I also have a quad of standard pin, solid plate non globe and may just order a quad of standard shape V4s in the new year, it is a hobby after all and should make us all smile.
Offer is still open to both you and Andy to visit for a listen should you wish. I would appreciate another set of ears to hear my system and give comment. Perhaps I've gone down a solitary path of my own choosing and only hear what I want to hear.
Wish you all well.
Smart
Your neck of the woods is a major P.I.T.A to get to for me :( I'll try to head over at some point , hopefully with an amp under my arm to try ;)
Al
Your neck of the woods is a major P.I.T.A to get to for me :( I'll try to head over at some point , hopefully with an amp under my arm to try ;)"
Yeah - me and Al are degenerate West London chaps..... well, someone has to live there....
email EML and tell them to send over the ones that sound the same when they tap them...and tell EML to keep a log of the singles to find the ones that match otherwise its and endless game of 'concentration'!
Surely the audio revelation of the century (along with 12AWG 12AX7 anode load wiring with silver plating to avoid 'big-wire' sound) would be to invent a coating that makes all tubes sound the same when tapped . Then everyone could throw their tube testers away and would no longer need to do matching of any kind . I was thinking of wrapping Viton tape around the bottle then a 1" thick coating of concrete . Do you think that will work and help Jeff make all his 5U4G match/poing the same ?
Al
...for some folks here to abandon their self-proclaimed "common sense, reason and logic" in favour of banal piling on. So easily manipulated.
Cheers.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few." Shunryo Suzuki
+1 !! Pavlov....dogs! Unfortunately most of the dogs, squatting in their pens with drool dripping from their jowls waiting for the bell, think they are Pavlov!!Cheers,
Geary
Edits: 12/10/14
It may salivate at the sight of Pavlov.
8^)
Me thinks you are simply too old, and too rigid, to learn something new ( to you ) .
Dennis has done this now - for decades. You know, he had his own Radio Station in Billings, Montana when he was 16 years old...all tube.
If you tap a heated tube, you will burn the skin on your ear lobes Albert !
Jeff Medwin
Me thinks you are simply too old, and too rigid, to learn something new ( to you ) . > >
Al's a good friend and you couldn't be further from the truth here - he's not old at all and he's a real character with a great sense of humour.
But Al is an engineer, and a very good one. That's the origin of his views - nothing to do with personality.
Who is Albert ? Thanks to you I'm going to have to throw all my Osram PX4 away . I just went through 8 and all sound different when tapped . I think I'm going to have to listen in mono until I can find a pair . Never mind...
I also just tried this with 3C24 and the whole idea falls flat as tapping different parts of the glass produces different noises
The point I was making regarding hot tubes , you don't seem to understand :)
Al
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