[Yaesu] changes in rigs when CW dropped?

[David Willmore]

> Interesting... but with ALL of these improvements they will
> never SOUND as good or as clean as a good old tube receiver
> like a Collins, for example.
> 
> Computers can try all they want but they will still sound very dirty and abrasive to
> the ears.
> 
> I had not realized how BAD the solid state rigs ALL sound until I got hold of a
> couple of old Collins 51J receivers lately.
> SO SWEET! And they hear everything better than all of these
> $1000 - 3000 rice boxes with their DSP / APF / ANF / preamp /
> mumbo-jumbo add-ons will ever do! It cracks me up!
> 
> With the filters in this WW2 military tube rig I can dig out things
> that the new rigs can't hear because of their inherent digital
> noise floor.

I can only assume this is a troll.

But, just in case they actually believe it:

Yeah, tubes sounds great because they distort in a pleasing fashon.  Too bad
that's still distortion.  I'm sure it makes you happy to listen to it, but
nothing else wants their signal distorted that way--PSK31, RTTY, MT63, MSK16,
any of the STANAG, etc.

If you didn't derive income from selling parts for older rigs it might be 
possible to take your comments more seriously.

Cheers,
David N0YMV