[Eeyore]

robert casey wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
robert casey wrote:

I like the sound. It is nothing less and nothing more than that. My
favorite recordings are from the 40s and 50s(RCA Living Stereo, Anything
Bill Porter engineered, Hank Sr, Peggy Lee, Doc Watson albums from that
time period).Some Solid State equipment may be vastly superior on paper,
but it will never, ever be able to do what a good Tube piece will.

Maybe a good tube buffer downstream from a good SS mixer will do what
you want?


Whoooossshhhhhhhh

Incidentally, surely a *good* tube buffer should be transparent so it couldn't
have any effect in that scenario ?

Graham

Well, then there's no point in specifying the use of tubes in the first
place then. In which case, this newsgroup has no valid reason to
exist... Anyway.

You've got it wrong.

Tube circuits exist today because of their ADDED distortion/colouration, not because
of an absence of it. That's what makes them sound 'attractive'.

If you want a clinically accurate circuit, solid state is the way to go. National
Semiconductor for one are making op-amps now with THD well over 100dB below signal
level.

Graham