[Andre Jute]

In an effort to be agreeable, I tried hard to give you negative
feedback inside the tube as an explanation of the overwhelming
superiority of triodes (or trioded pentodes) for audio reproduction,
among other reasons because NFB is accessible to many who belong on RAT
and is a genetic deformity of the silicon scum whose only purpose on
RAT is dissension. NFB is what the silicon slime abuse to make their
inadequate components sound passable, and what even tubies inspired by
the age of sophisters and cost-accountants use to linearize pentodes.
NFB thus has a base level of familiarity which gives it a head start in
any black box model intended to explain something to diplomaed
quarterwits among the silicon slime as well as the better-educated
kibbitzers in my own camp.

But fine, you want to reject my explanation, then you must offer a
better reason to explain why triodes are such superior amplification
devices to anything else, so much more pleasing to the ear, so much
more accurate to the cultivated taste.

Despite my cracks about the metaphysics of tubes, there *has* to be an
electrical reason for the superiority of triodes. But sure, all kinds
of input is welcome.

Andre Jute