"Robert Morein" wrote in message


"Jacob Kramer" wrote in message
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Some of you might wish to contribute to this discussion, which I
think could benefit from it:


http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...t=0&ti d=137&
mode=thread&cid=6791612

A buddy of mine has some good tube stuff, and some good vinyl to go
along with it.

While I personally know maybe 80-100 serious audiophiles, I know none with a
100% tube-vinyl system in operation. Indeed, I personally have as much if
not more tube-vinyl equipment in operation as any of them. With all that is
written about tubes and vinyl, I wonder who is it that actually has all this
stuff?

I listen to it, but never with envy.

Agreed. Vinyl is noisy and can be very ugly-sounding. The best tubed
equipment is sonically indistinguishable from SS.

To me, good solid state and good CDs are better.

CDs versus vinyl is no contest - digital wins. Tubes is IME like SS with
more hassle.

The frontiers of high quality audio relate to personal audio and mobile
audio, which is practically speaking digital and solid state to its core.
This tubes and vinyl stuff is strictly a boomer thing, and boomers are
quickly approaching the age where their interest in audio falls off because
their ears no longer work so well.