In Reply to: RE: I did not write "obsolete". nt posted by Mercman on June 15, 2012 at 11:26:46:
I got my first transistor in the 50's. At that time one could get several vacuum tubes for what that transistor cost. Today, one gets several billion transistors (in a chip) for less than the cost of one tube. These chips are soldered onto circuit boards because they are expected to be reliable, whereas tubes are still socketed because of their unreliability.
There is also the foolishness of tube rolling, which is an inconsistent, unreliable and expensive method of applying tone controls and other euphonic distortion in the search of a "house" sound.
Tony Lauck
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