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WanderingEng · 3090 days ago · link · · parent · post: "Densely Filled with holographics, with oodles of back-to-front layering": TRIP REPORT, T.H.E. Show Newport 6.4.2016
I assume in this world it's all single ended triodes using Western Electric (vintage not reissue) 300B tubes? Maybe there are a few oddball others mixed in (but still Western Electric, never Chinese). My home hifi uses tubes. I don't pretend I couldn't go buy a modern receiver for half the price and sound as good with zero headaches for a decade or two. But I enjoy it for what it is. It to me is the hifi equivalent of driving a classic car. The portable tube headphone amp is just dumb.So everybody runs tubes