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From: hrs@houxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Are tubes the answer?
Message-ID: <304@houxb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 14:40:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: houxb.304
Posted: Wed Jun 20 14:40:40 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 07:43:45 EDT
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The recent spate of postings touting the advantages of
recently developed "vacuum tubes" leads me to caution
readers of this newsgroup that new is not always better.
We should not abandon the tried and proven crystal
detector for the much larger and heat generating
vacuum tubes in our tuner front ends.
If this trend continues the exquisite skill necessary
for manipulating the whisker will forever be lost
to humankind, traded for as yet unquantifiable distortions.

Herman Silbiger, CGE