In Reply to: Transistors' dirty little secret... posted by Al Sekela on April 10, 2007 at 12:51:40:
<< Tubes don't have this particular problem, but all of them are microphonic to some extent. >>Plus most of them use steel pins and steel internal parts and are prone to hysteresis distortion from the magnetic fields.
Not to mention the fact that they are wearing out every time you turn them on...
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- Re: Tubes' dirty little secret... - Charles Hansen 19:58:20 04/10/07 (6)
- Re: Tubes' dirty little secret.. (psst, they work too) - tomservo 18:23:23 04/12/07 (3)
- Re: Tubes' dirty little secret.. (psst, they work too) - nightdoggy 04:39:38 04/13/07 (2)
- Re: Tubes' dirty little secret.. (psst, they work too) - morricab 02:02:25 04/17/07 (1)
- uh...everything wears out....doesn't it? nt - TomLarson 20:26:30 04/17/07 (0)
- Must be why they can sound so good! (nt) - nightdoggy 18:20:05 04/11/07 (0)
- Re: Tubes' dirty little secret... - GGA 10:12:41 04/11/07 (0)