Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!hogpc!houxb!hrs 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 Lines: 11 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