At 8:48 AM -0800 11/19/02, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:55:39 -0500 Maurice Rickard wrote:
Good point, but not inevitably so--witness the proliferation of tube preamps.
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.... 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.
Ah. I get you. I was mainly thinking of tube preamps in recording (and home) studios, where "evil" is the ultimate destination, not necessarily the source. Believe me, I'm not against digital at all. And if there's a main culprit in some digital systems sounding awful, it's more likely the result of cheap D/A converters than it is the result of digital itself being inherently eeeeevil. -- Maurice Rickard http://mauricerickard.com/