Remembrances of vacuum tube days
As a young teenager, I developed a love for electronics which became a lifelong love affair. In those days vacuum tubes were the norm and solid state devices such as transistors weren't in usage then....
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wa8yxm wrote:
You can still buy Tube amplifers and receivers if you know where to look.
They have a "Sound" that is quite a bit different from modern "Solid State" stuff. Much (And yes I know this sounds somewhat like a pun) "Warmer".
(The pun is that due to the filament heaters and other sources a big tube amp can heat your room)
Yes I remember the great tone of the old radios before “superhet’s” came along
As an avid “DXer” on the AM band (before FM was common), I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I found a radio with a three gang variable tuning capacitor or condenser can’t recall which we called it..
