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In Reply to: Where did the term 'tube rollling' come from? posted by arahl on February 2, 2007 at 14:07:05:
I first came across the term "tube rolling" in the early 90s in the mfgr comments section of S'pile...the good ole days when it was a journal sized mag and high end audio was fun. There may be earlier references but I'm not aware of them.David Manley and Roger Modjeski were going at it publicly over the relative merits of each of their amp design philosophies. One of Roger's claimed design advantages was the capability of his amps being able to accept a wide range of output tubes with minor bias and output transformer tap adjustments. David claimed that his designs were highly optimized for a certain output tube type and really no other and therefore the sound of his designs was better than that of Roger's. David derogatorily referred to the willy-nilly switching around of output tubes as tube rolling. Current usage seems to refer to all forms of tube switching at all positions in an amp and includes both switching within a given tube type and between tube types.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Where did the term 'tube rollling' come from? - Steve O 15:39:00 02/02/07 (12)
- I thought "rolling" and "scoring" were drugs argot - andy evans 14:56:09 02/05/07 (0)
- Re: Where did the term 'tube rollling' come from? - Ray Moth 16:58:53 02/02/07 (10)
- Re: Where did the term 'tube rollling' come from? - Steve O 20:02:34 02/02/07 (0)
- d'ya think RM drives EL84's too hard!? - Timbo in Oz 17:53:07 02/02/07 (8)
- Re: d'ya think RM drives EL84's too hard!? - Ray Moth 14:40:21 02/03/07 (3)
- well I currently get 20 watts @ 20 hz (.5%) and through to 20khz @( .1% thd - Timbo in Oz 17:47:50 02/05/07 (2)
- Re: well I currently get 20 watts @ 20 hz (.5%) and through to 20khz @( .1% thd - Ray Moth 03:43:34 02/14/07 (1)
- The values around the ip and drivers were changed - Timbo in Oz 14:47:49 02/14/07 (0)
- Re: d'ya think RM drives EL84's too hard!? - Tre' 18:41:10 02/02/07 (3)
- I LIKE power!, and I was asking a technical question of Ray. - Timbo in Oz 19:03:19 02/02/07 (2)
- I'm not sure of the question but I have some comments - Russ57 06:14:27 02/03/07 (1)
- See above under Ray Moths' post, too - Timbo in Oz 17:50:26 02/05/07 (0)
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