Vacuum Tubes

[Irving]

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.

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.

[Ah Pook]

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?

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

Ya don't get it. Just saying.

[electronman1729]

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

[Great-Kazoo]

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.

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.................

[O2HeN2]

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

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

[newracer]

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.

[Ah Pook]

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

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

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

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.

[GilpinGuy]

Classic tube guitar amps...Awesome. "This one goes to 11"

[Ah Pook]

Classic tube guitar amps...Awesome. "This one goes to 11"

Because 10 just isn't enough.

[Irving]

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