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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Tubes and solid state
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Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 21:26:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 20 21:26:14 1984
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>  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.
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    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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