http://www.samsung.com/us/2012-vacuum-tube-amplifier/?cid=smc-nahq-mult-0702-10000079

Sigh.  If anyone needs me, I'll be tamping the powder in my musket.

-- 
Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com
Email address domain is currently out of order.  See above to fix.

On Monday, July 9, 2012 8:52:24 PM UTC-4, Rob Gaddi wrote:
> http://www.samsung.com/us/2012-vacuum-tube-amplifier/?cid=smc-nahq-mult-0702-10000079
> 
> Sigh.  If anyone needs me, I'll be tamping the powder in my musket.
> 
> -- 
> Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com
> Email address domain is currently out of order.  See above to fix.

What did P.T. Barnum say??

Clay

On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:52:24 -0700, Rob Gaddi wrote:

> http://www.samsung.com/us/2012-vacuum-tube-amplifier/?cid=smc-nahq-
mult-0702-10000079
> 
> Sigh.  If anyone needs me, I'll be tamping the powder in my musket.

Yup.  They don't mention dipping that stuff in LN2 _at all_ -- so it must 
be plain old ordinary crap whose crystalline structure isn't aligned in 
an acoustically balanced fashion.

Tsk.

-- 
Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consulting
www.wescottdesign.com

On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 17:52:24 -0700, Rob Gaddi
<r...@technologyhighland.invalid> wrote:

>http://www.samsung.com/us/2012-vacuum-tube-amplifier/?cid=smc-nahq-mult-0702-10000079
>
>Sigh.  If anyone needs me, I'll be tamping the powder in my musket.
>
>-- 
>Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com
>Email address domain is currently out of order.  See above to fix.

You deserve the best technology to get that pure sound out of the
vinyl.

;)


Eric Jacobsen
Anchor Hill Communications
www.anchorhill.com

Rob Gaddi <r...@technologyhighland.invalid> writes:

> http://www.samsung.com/us/2012-vacuum-tube-amplifier/?cid=smc-nahq-mult-0702-10000079
>
> Sigh.  If anyone needs me, I'll be tamping the powder in my musket.

They double as space heaters.
-- 
Randy Yates
Digital Signal Labs
http://www.digitalsignallabs.com

On 7/9/12 8:52 PM, Rob Gaddi wrote:
> http://www.samsung.com/us/2012-vacuum-tube-amplifier/?cid=smc-nahq-mult-0702-10000079
>
> Sigh.  If anyone needs me, I'll be tamping the powder in my musket.
>

i agree with the general sentiment expressed here (heck, i maybe we can 
find someone who makes an excellent D/A converter using tubes acting as 
the switches in an R-2R ladder, - you know, to get that "warm tube 
sound") *but* we *still* have not mastered something that has appeared 
sorta organically previously.  to wit:

  http://www.mesaboogie.com/manuals/Blue%20Angel.pdf

  http://www.freeinfosociety.com/electronics/schemview.php?idP6


we *still* have not arrived at fully modeling the mathematics going on 
inside a gem like this.

so, combine that Mesa Boogie with, say, something i once in my life 
worked on designing algs:

 
http://aliens-project.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Eventide-DSP4000.jpg 


and you have something that is sorta-kinda the same thing, D/A output 
goes into vacuum tube circuitry to get a wunnerful sound.  some muskets 
work pretty good.

but i agree that this Samsung thing is fluff.

-- 

r b-j                  r...@audioimagination.com

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

e...@ieee.org (Eric Jacobsen) writes:

> On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 17:52:24 -0700, Rob Gaddi
> <r...@technologyhighland.invalid> wrote:
>
>>http://www.samsung.com/us/2012-vacuum-tube-amplifier/?cid=smc-nahq-mult-0702-10000079
>>
>>Sigh.  If anyone needs me, I'll be tamping the powder in my musket.
>>
>>-- 
>>Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com
>>Email address domain is currently out of order.  See above to fix.
>
> You deserve the best technology to get that pure sound out of the
> vinyl.
>
> ;)

I loved buying the old Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs half-speed masters and
playing them on my Yamaha YP-D70 turntable with a Shure V15-III
cartridge and an antistatic mat and Zero ion gun, but I have to admit
CDs are the bomb!
-- 
Randy Yates
Digital Signal Labs
http://www.digitalsignallabs.com

Tim Wescott <t...@seemywebsite.please> writes:

> On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:52:24 -0700, Rob Gaddi wrote:
>
>> http://www.samsung.com/us/2012-vacuum-tube-amplifier/?cid=smc-nahq-
> mult-0702-10000079
>> 
>> Sigh.  If anyone needs me, I'll be tamping the powder in my musket.
>
> Yup.  They don't mention dipping that stuff in LN2 _at all_ -- so it must 
> be plain old ordinary crap whose crystalline structure isn't aligned in 
> an acoustically balanced fashion.

Reminds me of "micronics."
-- 
Randy Yates
Digital Signal Labs
http://www.digitalsignallabs.com

Oops. When the 12AX7 tube that I own has done its job, my analog signal
usually looks like Samsung's -digital- signal...

All they need now is a Higgs Boson