From: pfjw@aol.com   
      
   I would like to add one more concept to the 'restoration vs. creation' path in   
   this hobby. The brute fact of the matter is that there are, in tubes anyway,   
   no new concepts since perhaps the 1970s, stretching it, perhaps the 80s. Yes,   
   there are larger    
   tubes, more powerful tubes, tubes that have a greater range, perhaps. But   
   effectively there is nothing new under the sun. What remains to the hobbyist   
   is to execute established concepts with greater and greater elegance or   
   refinement. And the law of    
   diminishing returns applies.    
      
   Starting with an established platform - even one that has been executed at the   
   margins, hamstrung by bean counters or worse - allows one to take a system   
   that already works and improve it to where it, if not quite SOTA, is at least   
   fit for polite society.   
    To this day I am impressed and admire Patrick Turner's remake of the Dynaco   
   ST70. Something with in the reach of most of us who (at least) pretend to know   
   one end of a soldering iron from another.    
      
   Peter Wieck   
   Melrose Park, PA   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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