Vacuum Tubes

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Originally Posted by roberth

Tubes are beauty for classical music. Rock n' Roll is more of a transistor thing.

I found a couple of bags of tubes at Brass Armadillo, my friend bought them all. Maybe check antique row on South Broadway.

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This place is freaking awesome. It's where I picked up my Kristen pipe for only $20 the other day. Also, there are about 10 bayonets in case #391.

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Originally Posted by Eric P

I have to admit, I was going to say go to sears or other place that sells vacuums and see if they sell the hoses. Never have I seen or heard of using these types of tubes. Why would you use them?

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Different tubes can "color" the music in different ways.

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Originally Posted by jerrymrc

Ya don't get it. Just saying.

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[LOL]

Check JB Saunders in Boulder, he used to have boxes of them.

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Originally Posted by J

Someone needs to tell these guys about this crazy new invention... the "Transistor"....


See it turns out you can take something called a substrate, made out of things like silicon or germanium... then you can dope it with focused energy, and through quantum mechanics and a tunneling electron phenomenon you can have this magical device. It works kind of like a couple of vacuum tubes put together, costs a fraction to purchase, and has a factor of 1000 greater noise, environment and power fluctuation resistance.

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Nothing like the hum of a receiver warming up, the glow illuminating the wall behind it. Then putting something on the turntable ,sss turntable,sss, turntable, sss, turntable.................

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Originally Posted by J

Someone needs to tell these guys about this crazy new invention... the "Transistor"....

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You'll never git it. With transistors you'll never get to appreciate the quality that tubes bring to music... The distortion, the non-linearity, the 60Hz hum. All lacking with transistors.

:)

O2

A little off topic, my father in law had a bunch of old tubes. When he passed we sold them all for a lot of cash.

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Originally Posted by sellersm

This place is in Denver: http://www.vacuumtubesupplies.com/

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Did some looking on their website, last night. Going to try and make a trip down there next week.

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Originally Posted by O2HeN2

You'll never git it. With transistors you'll never get to appreciate the quality that tubes bring to music... The distortion, the non-linearity, the 60Hz hum. All lacking with transistors.

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O2

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I grew up with tube TVs. Used to watch the TV repairman test the tubes. Had a tube reel-to-reel (forget the brand). That thing weighed a ton but made pretty good recordings.

[Punker][rockon]
Classic tube guitar amps...Awesome. "This one goes to 11"

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Originally Posted by GilpinGuy

[Punker][rockon]
Classic tube guitar amps...Awesome. "This one goes to 11"

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Because 10 just isn't enough.

Can you take a vacuum tube up Chinaman Gulch? Didn't think so.