[Milsurplus] Germanium to silicon

[Frank]

J Forster wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes indeed.  I have to confess that I did that to an old LM 
and the results were good.  Guess there are exceptions to 
everything.

Regards,
Frank Kamp