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.
OT: Samsung to turn cluelessness into money
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Reply by ●July 9, 20122012-07-09
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
Reply by ●July 10, 20122012-07-10
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
Reply by ●July 10, 20122012-07-10
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 17:52:24 -0700, Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@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
Reply by ●July 10, 20122012-07-10
Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@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
Reply by ●July 10, 20122012-07-10
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?id=506 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 rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Reply by ●July 10, 20122012-07-10
eric.jacobsen@ieee.org (Eric Jacobsen) writes:> On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 17:52:24 -0700, Rob Gaddi > <rgaddi@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
Reply by ●July 10, 20122012-07-10
Tim Wescott <tim@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
Reply by ●July 10, 20122012-07-10
Oops. When the 12AX7 tube that I own has done its job, my analog signal usually looks like Samsung's -digital- signal...
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