Re: Theremin

At 9:38 AM -0800 11/18/02, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:

But the argument for vacuum tubes mainly applies to power amps, not low level signals, right (because as far as I know I am not aware of 16-bit D/A converters made out of vacuum tubes, and every CD player has two such beasts)?

Good point, but not inevitably so--witness the proliferation of tube preamps. But I agree that the power stage, and quite possibly the output transformers moreso than the tubes, are more characteristic of "tube tone," so the application to the theremin is doubtful. And I suspect that a tube theremin will be much more of a pain in the butt to haul around than a solid state one would be. -- Maurice Rickard http://mauricerickard.com/