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Article: Vacuum tubes glow anew // Audiophiles find midrange magic in old technology
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 13, 1996
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Vacuum tubes are back.
Bathing the world of audio in their warm, golden glow, tubes are
the oldest Big Thing to come along in years. If this
progressing-by-regressing trend continues, pretty soon we'll be using
tin-can telephones to call in reservations for the Flat Earth Society
seminar "Columbus: Visionary or Nutcase?"
As our computers get faster and cellular phones get smaller,
electronic advancements march onward. Nonetheless, the increasing
foothold of this 50-year-old technology is genuine. Growing numbers
of audiophiles are voting with their pocketbooks, taking "totally
tubular" out of Valspeak and putting it into the audio lexicon.
There are two basic types of amplifier: solid ...