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In Reply to: Re: I'll try to be concise here posted by StylinLP on March 8, 2007 at 09:41:07:
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Except for a few boutique brands favored by audiophiles, how many engineers in the last fifty years are actively designing tube audio circuits? For that matter, how many of these amps are using circuits that have had any meaningful changes since 1930?
Also, how many new designs have come out using solid state? B&O comes up with ICE and everyone buys them for a $100 each and puts them into $20,000 amps.
Frankly, SS or tube, amplification is pretty much a done deal circuit-wise. Has been for a while. We audiophiles are the only ones that think the revolution isn't over, and end up paying through the nose for it.I am no engineer, but I do have an associate degree in electronics. I program for a living, but I do remember some of the things I learned in school. Enough to know that when somebody starts talking about skin effect in power cables, or choke regulation in a SS power supply, or charge me $3500 for an upgrade that entails soldering in a couple of capacitors, somebody is trying to take me for a fool.
It interesting that you point out ICE based amps as a rip-off. I feel exactly the same way when I see a single-ended triode amp consisting of maybe twenty parts selling for $15K.
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