[Milsurplus] Germanium to silicon

[J Forster]

Frank wrote:

> My personal view of folk trying to 'solid state' a good tube
> design is that they are nuts.  No, there is no way to
> replace all the tubes with fets and get equal performance.
> Anyone trying is out of their mind.
>
> Accept the tube circuits for what they are and do.  If you
> want a solid state version, then design one from scratch.
> Don't mess up a good vacuum tube design with solid state
> devices.

In general I agree, but there might well be a place for a solid stated
BC-221 or LM-xx. There were such articles a number of years ago and they
seemed pretty well done. NOTHING in the basic instrument was modified
AFAIR...  all mods were plug in.

FWIW,
-John