[geeks] What's old is new again...

Wed Aug 29 14:18:40 CDT 2007

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>>> I had a review sample of that board. It sounded like shit.
>> To me all vacuum tube stereos sound bad. I don't like the distortion
>> they add.
>> There are plenty of Tube preamps I like. (I don't like most tube power 
> amps.) It's just that this board didn't have *nearly* enough isolation 
> to keep noise from the "computer part" from coming into the "stereo part".

I suspect it was purely designed to look cool, on the basis that anyone
who knows the difference isn't going to waste their money on gamedweeb
bling anyway.
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