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New vacuum tubes!

My dad has a vacuum tube collection with a variety of tubes for all different applications going back to the 1930s. Some of them are really cool looking.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
My dad has a vacuum tube collection with a variety of tubes for all different applications going back to the 1930s. Some of them are really cool looking.
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Cool 😎
 
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
The real question is, does it go to eleven?
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I was just auditioning my guitars with it... I can safely say it goes to 12 now 😎

The only brand new ones are on the far right, the rectifier tubes. The middle 4 (surrounded by the yellow ones) were from xmas.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
People THINK they give better sound quality.
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actually they do, but whether people can actually appreciate that difference is out there...
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Making the claim that harmoic distortion is better sound quality is dubious at best.

That being said, something can sound better than something else and have worse sound quality.
 
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
People THINK they give better sound quality.
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I've got a lot of experience with this.. they def. make a huge difference. Think about what digital does to an analog signal..

It makes all the peaks of a sine wave into a 1 and all the valleys of it into a 0. It's a digital approx of the signal... you lose the entire section of the wave between the two points.

Tubes produce much smoother harmonic distortion.. it's so unbelievably easy to tell the difference between a silicon diode and a tube....
 
Originally posted by: notfred
My dad has a vacuum tube collection with a variety of tubes for all different applications going back to the 1930s. Some of them are really cool looking.
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Say hi to Stan for me.🙂
 
My dad usually buys new old stock tubes. He got some tubes from the 50s or 60s that were brand new and unused recently for his huge console stereo. (Also vintage from the 60s). High quality tube stuff is amazing, I love mcintosh amps hooked up to a nice set of speakers. 😀

One day hopefully I'll have a tube guitar amp... when I learn how to actually play the guitar significantly better than what I can currently play (virtually nothing 🙁)
 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
People THINK they give better sound quality.
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I've got a lot of experience with this.. they def. make a huge difference. Think about what digital does to an analog signal..

It makes all the peaks of a sine wave into a 1 and all the valleys of it into a 0. It's a digital approx of the signal... you lose the entire section of the wave between the two points.

Tubes produce much smoother harmonic distortion.. it's so unbelievably easy to tell the difference between a silicon diode and a tube....
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That's not at all how digital audio works.

Yes, analog audio could potentially sound better, but I'd love to see some blind tests prove that people can tell the difference.
 
So much ignorance in this thread.
Tubes sound better because they are linear devices, MOSFETs are nonlinaer and over a certain range do distort.

That is why. /thread
 
I so want to get into tubes again. I've just been too busy with work and sh!t. 🙁

I want to learn how to build my own guitar amp. I have some specimens to study, I just haven't had any time.
 
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