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   On Sun, 8 May 2011 17:03:26 -0700 (PDT), Patrick Turner   
    wrote:   
      
   >On May 9, 4:06 am, "Fred"  wrote:   
   >> NX211 wrote:   
   >> > On May 8, 7:32 am, John L Stewart > > 80c4...@audiobanter.com> wrote:   
   >> >> anterm;930852 Wrote:   
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   >> >>> Some audiophiles say that the sound quality in vacuum tubes is   
   >> >>> better, but I fail to see why, especially since vacuum tube   
   >> >>> electronics is an older technology   
   >>   
   >> >> Same odd reason some people prefer to ride a horse now & then! Not   
   >> >> difficult to come up with many other examples.   
   >>   
   >> >> John   
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   >> >> --   
   >> >> John L Stewart   
   >>   
   >> > Any good audio engineer can make a transistor sound like a tube but   
   >> > one thing they can't do is make a transistor glow like a tube.  That   
   >> > my friend is the answer.   
   >>   
   >> Actually, it's easier to make a transistor glow like a tube than to make   
   one sound like a tube.   
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   >NO. I never been able to make a transistor glow. But they can easily   
   >make fuses blow, after they have failed to become a sullen dull   
   >useless bit of junk which conducts like wire in both directions.   
   >   
   >Patrick Turner.   
      
   Back in the 1970s when I was designing the first digital pagers, we   
   used a system called Molybdenum Gate Technology which would run off   
   2.5V. If you prised the lids off the chips, the FET drains would glow   
   when they conducted. You could actually follow what the logic of the   
   chip was doing this way.   
      
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