[Elecraft] Best Sounding Sound?

[Fred (FL)]

It "sounds" like the best-sounding transceiver
or ham rig SOUND came out of VACUUM TUBE rigs.

I notice every ham that refers back to 
".... the best sounding rig I ever had 
was ...." - is talking a tube rig.

This is controversial in some corners - but
there is something about that gaseous medium,
electrons flowing thru space or vacuum,
and "iron" transformers here and there -
that gives these rigs that great sound.
They seem to have a good portion of "bounce"
and "springiness" in their circuitry.  Perhaps
audio momentum?  Somewhere in the IEEE Vacuum
Tube archives of 1982 - they must have saved
this information.

This may be one reason why 100 Watt monaural
amplifiers from McIntosh, command such
high prices, 30 year after they came on
the scene.  They have matdched PAIRS of
Vacuum Tubes, and mega-iron transformers.

... started my ham career with 1625's in
a home-brewed plate modulator AM rig. (1625's
were surplus from WWII and my dad) That
blue glow on a winter's eve - warmed up
the shack.

Fred,
de N3CSY


       
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