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Interesting site. Thanks. The accompanying photo file concerns Iowa State University, located in Ames, Iowa. I was born and raised 8 miles from Ames so I like to occasionally shill for them. I did not attend ISU but did many visits. When I studied electronics, I did some written or maybe oral report on transistors and used an analogy of a gate value in a water system. As a young person, vacuum tubes held mystery for me. The odd thing is, not until just a couple months ago did I notice anyone refer to a vacuum tube as a valve. Maybe that is more of a European thing?
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They were extolling amazement that the 1st transistor was even smaller than sub-miniature tubes.
That could be argued
Thru out the world those that despise the worship of money generally phase it, " Worshiping the Almighty Dollar. " Not the Almighty Pound or franc or yen or peso.
Back in the day, I had a Sansui (sic?) tube type audio amplifier. It had a transformer about the size of a small toaster. I will contend that that amp had a much "richer" sound than the solid state amps of the time. It has been mentioned to me, and I am inclined to agree, that the timber of the audio out was sweetened by the inherent flaws of the amplifier tubes. Because of the physical structure of the tube with its various control grids, these grids were susceptible to sound waves and other ambient wave forms, resulting in minuscule vibrations. Also, I'll guess that a small amount of "splatter" of free electrons was present inside the tubes. The results of these attributes was a sound witch could be compared to reverb or depth of audio. I know there was one designer that made a sound system that intentionally built in an approximate delay of 0.2 seconds from one channel out to the other. Windows Media Player has a similar tool available in its enhancements window.
