[Arny Krueger]

"Ed Seedhouse" wrote in message


I was alive at the time with access to magazines that
discussed the differences between 78's and 33's.

As was I. Admittedly I found most of those magazines in storage or used book
stores.

Then there were the controversies of triode versus pentode, transformer
coupling versus capacitor coupling, bass reflex versus acoustic suspension,
Ultra linear taps on output transformers, horns versus direct radiators,
mono versus stereo, tubes versus transistors, etc.

And it is just a fact that there were plenty of letters in
magazines extolling the virtues of the former and the
deficiencies of the latter. The debate went on issue
after issue in, if I recall rightly, the pages of
"Wireless world", the premier British electronics
magazine and every time I come across today's "CD's suck
and tubes sound ever so much better" tirades in today's
fashionable rags, I am reminded afresh of the 78 vs 33
debates from all those years ago.

I still remember the first time I ran into someone who had assidiously
avoided the conversion from mono to stereo.

In fact, allowing for
changes in english usage over the years many of these
early letters could be published today by just
substituting "digital" and "analogue" as appropriate.

Pretty much.

Although you don't see too many letters in today's
magazines extolling the virtues of thorn needles over
steel ones, or the "real sound" of the completely sound
driven horn gramophones vs the "fake" sound produced with
electronics. And these were tube electronics, mind you.

Ah, the debates of yesteryear.

With every sea change there are those who pull their boats up onto the shore
of some desert island, and just stay there forever.