[Milsurplus] RE: [ARC5] serious tube

[david_jackson at agilent.com]

Michael:

I was thinking the same thing.  My impression was that a very low ripple, well regulated power supply was a good thing.  

I'm glad I read this endorsement because now I know better.  I can now go back to designing power supplies with a lot of ripple and poor regulation because we all know they sound better.

Thanks,

Dave, WA4OBJ

-----Original Message-----
Behalf Of Michael Tauson
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] RE: [ARC5] serious tube

Hmmm ...

On 10/30/06, david_jackson at agilent.com <david_jackson at agilent.com> wrote:
> Because it got an endorsement from Fred Voltz of Emotive Audio (whoever that
> is).

And in that endorsement is:

> Your Sophia Electric(tm) mesh plate 274B is the best rectifier tube I have ever
> heard including the actual Western Electric 274B.

How does one hear a rectifier ... aside from the terminal arc over
that comes now and then?  And what the ehck is a sound stage in this
application of the term:

Sophia Electric(tm) 274B tube is a premium rectifier tube for a
5U4/5R4/5AR4* direct replacement with 3X longer plate structure, thus
it has a deeper, wider sound stage and even smoothier sound than
Mullard 5AR4.

Have we missed out on something *wonderful* all this time?

Best regards,

Michael, K3MXO/KH6 ... somewhat confused about all this stuff ...