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In Reply to: RE: We keep hearing all this what's the best tube amp lately. posted by Michael Samra on December 10, 2014 at 03:06:35
OK I can't resist, this is an asylum after all. I ran into an audio nut that expained the vintage transformers were better because the iron was mined closer to the surface which exposed it to more gamma rays.
I would write more but I need to adjust my foil helmet.
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But now you're getting into quantum mechanics.
A transformer exists in two possible states. It can be both good and bad at the same time. So your crappy stereo is really a TOTL until listened to. Schrödinger proved this with his stereo in the 30's.
charles
So, rather like class d at an ultra-ultra-high frequency?
Can one be so fat, or so peripatetic, as to be ubiquitous?
Jeremy
I did not realize until now that tube amps occupy a quantum superposition. That explains a lot of the contradictory preferences that have surfaced in recent discussions. Which tube amp is best depends on the collapse of the wave function and not the collapse of the noise and distortion levels.
That's the exclusion principle and summation of histories of the no boundary stereo theory. And will forever expand on it's own hype.
charles
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Perhaps, but if you're confident about how it sounds, you can't be certain about where it is.
I think you can be either one or the other at the same time ...
Dave
Actually modern iron has a waaay more radioactive component. This is primarily due to the nuclear testing and of course those two bombs in Japan. An don't forget Chernobyl either. There are salvage experts working to recover older WWII and earlier ships for this very reason in order to get radioactive free stock.
FWIW
Alpha particles are what gives it the HUMP in the midrange. But I'm from the old school that believes it's really the Beta particles and radioactive Iron that makes it pop.
Hummmm, I wonder why my trannies are warm even when my stereo is OFF???
Because they are simultaneously on?
Jeremy
There is no way to duplicate the tone of a radioactive transformer. The only down side is I have to wear lead-lined underwear when I listen, and it is not the most comfortable stuff in the world. Actually the sound is so good that I might have to switch to a lead lined diaper!
Dave
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