Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Tubes and solid state Message-ID: <2310@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 21:26:14 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2310 Posted: Wed Jun 20 21:26:14 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 03:49:56 EDT References: <494@drutx.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 11 > why does quality tube gear have that unique ability to resolve low-level > detail near the noise floor and ambience that solid state gear cannot? Possibly because the noise floor is higher, elevated by whimsical effects like heater-cathode leakage and microphonics. -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell