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Where Have All the Serious Audiophiles Gone?
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All gone to iPods every one.
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It follows a similar tube complement to my MC2102 (which is on sale: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/mcintosh-mc2102-with-ge-tubes-5000.13418/).
The SNR is better and I don't see any comments about it being a fully transistor-free signal path.
Money aside, that amp is likely going to fall under the same category of the mechanical watch analogy.
The SNR is better and I don't see any comments about it being a fully transistor-free signal path.
Money aside, that amp is likely going to fall under the same category of the mechanical watch analogy.
Why will they never learn?
I'd like one so I can sell it new-in-box on Audiogon.
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Why tubes? When I was talking a course on electronics design and construction back in 1969, we still had to design and build a mono tube amp before moving on to designing and building a four-transistor portable radio . I still remember soldering wires to the tube sockets — the result was a rat’s nest of wires despite my best efforts at making a clean design and implementation. Later I did a couple of power amps with 2N3055s, they were fun. But tubes....
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Serious audiophiles like the late and much lamented* Dr. Harvey "Gizmo" Rosenberg?
http://www.meta-gizmo.org/index.html
Oh, and on topic (?!?)
I would really, truly like to think that serious audiophiles would really, truly prefer, if not expect, their vacuum tubes to glow orange (or bright white, if the filaments are thoriated tungstern) and not fricking green.
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* Or, to quote Patty Larkin, whilst channeling Marlene Dietrich: "The late, the great... the dead..." ["Gizmo", in this case].
http://www.meta-gizmo.org/index.html
Oh, and on topic (?!?)
I would really, truly like to think that serious audiophiles would really, truly prefer, if not expect, their vacuum tubes to glow orange (or bright white, if the filaments are thoriated tungstern) and not fricking green.
But even Mac doesn't make a mechanical amplifier, to the best of my knowledge.
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* Or, to quote Patty Larkin, whilst channeling Marlene Dietrich: "The late, the great... the dead..." ["Gizmo", in this case].
might be blasphemous here, but there is something intrinsically neat about tubes. And they can sound good too. I just wouldn't want to be stuck with a $12,000 amp that has distortion by design. Much rather get a clean amp and do that stuff in the pre-stage. Then it's optional.
OP - did you see this link, from Hypebeast, on your Google feed per chance? I just did last night. It's starting to feel like Google is in control of a deterministic world.
I want them. Tube or no tube they are beautiful and industrial works of art.
They died. 
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Archsam
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You mean audiophile like this fella?
I think in order to join the club, you need to put in a hefty price for entry just like this guy, and this isn't something you are going to replace with a 'cheap' integrated amp
Tip: you can turn on the English caption on youtube if you don't speak cantonese.
Edit: ok the subtitle is crap, only [Music] - seriously??
I think in order to join the club, you need to put in a hefty price for entry just like this guy, and this isn't something you are going to replace with a 'cheap' integrated amp
Tip: you can turn on the English caption on youtube if you don't speak cantonese.
Edit: ok the subtitle is crap, only [Music] - seriously??
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I can imagine that fine china in the background rattling and buzzing away when those fine looking speakers are wound up.You mean audiophile like this fella?
I think in order to join the club, you need to put in a hefty price for entry just like this guy, and this isn't something you are going to replace with a 'cheap' integrated amp
(In Canada we simply call this fine porcelain "China.")
Archsam
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I can imagine that fine china in the background rattling and buzzing away when those fine looking speakers are wound up.
There's a really funny follow up video when the host revisited this apartment and fooled around with the DSP module (which the owner never used), because the glass facade to the left is creating all sorts of funny reflections, and according to the owner, the system never sounded SOTA
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