"Andre Jute" wrote in message
oups.com...
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down silicon
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover

Jesuits are known for being exceedingly clever but this Hopkins is
something else altogether. He is not only a tube fancier, he is
remarkably prescient about the Plodding Ps which infest these
conferences and their silicon delusions -- "blue-bleak embers" is a
touchstone description of that chilling, greyed-out silicon sound. And
when they stumble and wound their pride and joy, they gash (gall,
windgall aka windpuff, which is an injury to a horse's ass -- brilliant
chain of associations!) the protruding heatsinks anodized in
pretentious gold and scarlet. An image "ah my dear" to warm the heart
of any redblooded tubie!

Andre Jute
Visit Jute on Amps at http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/
"wonderfully well written and reasoned information
for the tube audio constructor"
John Broskie TubeCAD & GlassWare
"an unbelievably comprehensive web site
containing vital gems of wisdom"
Stuart Perry Hi-Fi News & Record Review


Alas I don't see the connection between Audiophiles and Jesuits

Jem


----------------------------------------------------
Dramatised - Photography
Granularised - Photographs
Black and White - Prints
Blue and White - Cyanotypes
http://jemraid.wikispaces.com/