[Milsurplus] Re: serious tube

[William Donzelli]

> Very well put. One thing though. It's not always a money motive that
> drives these guys. Sometimes it's just the desire to be regarded as the
> leader of the flock, the elite de la elite.

Some good points, although the wine example is flawed. There actually
is a point to have the bottles certain shapes and colors (it is
related to how the wine is stored, preventing oxidation, and catching
sediment), and until recently there was a point to having certain high
quality corks (again, for oxidation prevention).

Also, if the wine critics say something is good, it nearly always is.
Very rarely does a high scoring wine turn out to be mediocre or bad.
On the flip side, and something many critics do not like to admit, is
that there are plenty of 8 dollar managers specials that are just as
good. It is a crap shoot, however, so that 8 dollar special may indeed
be awful. In the audio world, I have heard too many high priced tube
amps that just did not sound very good next to $150 consumer grade
amps, against everything the critics say. Too many times their high
marks come from less than impressive pieces of audio engineering.

--
Will "food snob that thought that the restruant we all went Friday
night at the East Coast military radio meet this year really sucked"
Donzelli