19 Nov
2002
19 Nov
'02
10:24 a.m.
They might proliferate but I am still skeptical due to the fact that the source of the sound is coming from 100% solid state devices (I am of course thinking of CD players, turntables with electro-mechanical cartridges are another story). Having a couple of vacuum tubes down the signal path to strenghten the signal by few dozen of dBs does not change the fact that the "evil" is at the source. If vacuum tube are so perfect, a music audiophile should refuse playing CDs (maybe they do).
That sounds like the computer motherboards (Like AOpen's AX4B-533 Tube) with tube amps in their integrated sound. I've never heard of anything so silly... It's still a digital (aka evil) source. Zach